New World orders : violence, sanction, and authority in the colonial Americas /

Bewaard in:
Bibliografische gegevens
Andere auteurs: Smolenski, John, Humphrey, Thomas J., 1965-
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2005]
Reeks:Early American studies
Onderwerpen:
Online toegang:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tags: Voeg label toe
Geen labels, Wees de eerste die dit record labelt!
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Introduction : the ordering of authority in the colonial Americas / John Smolenski
  • 1.Law's wilderness : the discourse of English colonizing, the violence of intrusion, and the failures of American history / Christopher Tomlins
  • 2.Dialogical encounters in a space of death / Richard Price
  • 3.The authority of gender : marital discord and social order in colonial Quito / Kimberly Gauderman
  • 4.Private and state violence against African slaves in lower Louisiana during the French period, 1699-1769 / Cecile Vidal
  • 5.Violence or sex? : constructions of rape and race in early America / Sharon Block
  • 6.The murder of Jacob Rabe : contesting Dutch colonial authority in the borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Mark Meuwese
  • 7.Forging cultures of resistance on two colonial frontiers : Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Cynthia Radding
  • 8.Sorcery and sovereignty : Senecas, citizens, and the contest for power and authority on the frontiers of the early American republic / Matthew Dennis
  • 9.Early modern Spanish citizenship : inclusion and exclusion in the old and the new world / Tamar Herzog
  • 10.Natural movements and dangerous spectacles : beatings, duels, and "play" in Saint Domingue / Gene E. Ogle
  • 11.Racial passing : informal and official "whiteness" in colonial Spanish America / Ann Twinam.