[PDF.28rx] Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

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 | #918352 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  2011-02-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 392 pages

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|| |"This book should become required reading for anybody wishing to make sense of legal relations, adaptation and resistance in the early New World and similar colonial contexts. It is a truly major tour de force." (Victore M. Uribe-Uran Journal of Latin Am

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal principles and processes when the dust of conquest had begun to settle after 1600. By juxtaposing hundreds of case records with written laws and treatises, Owensby reveals how Indians saw the law as a practical and moral resource that allowed them to gain a measure of control over their lives and to forge a relationship to a distant king. Seve...

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