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

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? …”
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