Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (376 pages)
ISBN:
9780812290004
Serie:
Early American studies
Inhalt:
New World Orders juxtaposes case studies from Brazil to California to New York to explore the wide variety of legal and extralegal means by which social order was maintained in the early Americas.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Ordering of Authority in the Colonial Americas -- Part I. Narrating Violence and Legality -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Law's Wilderness: The Discourse of English Colonizing, the Violence of Intrusion, and the Failures of American History -- 2. Dialogical Encounters in a Space of Death -- Part II. Authority and Intimate Violence -- Introduction to Part II -- 3. The Authority of Gender: Marital Discord and Social Order in Colonial Quito -- 4. Private and State Violence against African Slaves in Lower Louisiana during the French Period, 1699-1769 -- 5. Violence or Sex? Constructions of Rape and Race in Early America -- Part III. Colonial Space and Power -- Introduction to Part III -- 6. The Murder of Jacob Rabe: Contesting Dutch Colonial Authority in the Borderlands of Northeastern Brazil -- 7. Forging Cultures of Resistance on Two Colonial Frontiers: Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia -- 8. Sorcery and Sovereignty: Senecas, Citizens, and the Contest for Power and Authority on the Frontiers of the Early American Republic -- Part IV. Race, Citizenship, and Colonial Identity -- Introduction to Part IV -- 9. Early Modern Spanish Citizenship: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Old and the New World -- 10. Natural Movements and Dangerous Spectacles: Beatings, Duels, and "Play" in Saint Domingue -- 11. Racial Passing: Informal and Official "Whiteness" in Colonial Spanish America -- Afterword -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780812219227
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe New World Orders : Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Amerika
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Kolonialismus
;
Gewalt
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Sozialordnung
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Geschichte 1492-1810
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