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1 online resource (385 pages)
ISBN:
9780190638740
Inhalt:
The principal protagonists of this history of the Enlightenment are non-literate, poor, and enslaved colonial litigants who began to sue their superiors in the royal courts of the Spanish empire. With comparative data on civil litigation and close readings of the lawsuits, The Enlightenment on Trial explores how ordinary Spanish Americans actively produced modern concepts of law.
Inhalt:
Cover -- The Enlightenment on Trial -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Compilations of Laws -- Introduction: Why Is It Enlightenment? -- Part I Suing in the Spanish Empire -- 1. Agents and Powers: Litigants and Writers in the Courts -- 2. Derecho and Law: Legal Enlightenment in Philosophy and Policy -- 3. Numbers and Values: Counting Cases in the Spanish Empire -- Part II Lights from Litigants -- 4. Pleitos and Lawsuits: Conjugal Conflicts in Civil Courts -- 5. Then and Now: Native Status and Custom -- 6. Being and Becoming: Freedom and Slave Lawsuits -- Conclusion: Why Not Enlightenment? -- Appendix I: Archival Methods -- Appendix II: Analysis of Civil Litigation over Time -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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ISBN 9780190638733
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Premo, Bianca, 1969 - The enlightenment on trial New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780190638733
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780190638726
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Spanien
;
Kolonie
;
Amerika
;
Gesetzgebung
;
Gerichtsverhandlung
;
Geschichte 1540-1820
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