New World orders : violence, sanction, and authority in the colonial Americas /
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Early American studies
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Table of Contents:
- 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.