Descript |
vi, 363 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Contents |
Law's wilderness : the discourse of English colonizing, the violence of intrusion, and the failures of American history / Christopher Tomlins -- Dialogical encounters in a space of death / Richard Price -- The authority of gender : marital discord and social order in colonial Quito / Kimberly Gauderman -- Private and state violence against African slaves in lower Louisiana during the French period, 1699-1769 / Cécile Vidal -- Violence of sex? Constructions of rape and race in early America / Sharon Block -- The murder of Jacob Rabe : contesting Dutch colonial authority in the borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Mark Meuwese -- Forging cultures of resistance on two colonial frontiers : Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Cynthia Radding -- Sorcery and sovereignty : Senecas, citizens, and the contest for power and authority on the frontiers of the early American republic / Matthew Dennis -- Early modern Spanish citizenship : inclusion and exclusion the Old and the New World / Tamar Herzog -- Natural movements and dangerous spectacles : beatings, duels, and "play" in Saint Domingue / Gene E. Ogle -- Racial passing : informal and official "whiteness" in Colonial Spanish America / Ann Twinam. |
ISBN |
9780812219227 (pbk.) |
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0812219228 (pbk.) |
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