Justice in a New World : : Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America /

Justice in a New World : : Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America / / ed. by Brian P. Owensby, Richard J. Ross.

A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New WorldAs British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions of justice and legality played out against one another as settlers and indigenous people sought to nego...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Benton, Lauren,
Dixon, Bradley,
Echeverri, Marcela,
Gallman, Nancy O.,
Graubart, Karen B.,
Hale Pulsipher, Jenny,
Herzog, Tamar,
Owensby, Brian P.,
Richter, Daniel K.,
Ross, Richard J.,
Taylor, Alan,
Yirush, Craig,
HerausgeberIn:
Owensby, Brian P.,
Ross, Richard J.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 4 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Making law intelligible in comparative context
  • Part I. Mis-dialogues, code switching, and mixing languages of law
  • 2. Dialoguing with barbarians what natives said and how Europeans responded in late- seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Portuguese America
  • 3. defending and defrauding the Indians: john wompas, legal hybridity, and the sale of Indian land
  • 4. “since we came out of this ground”: Iroquois legal arguments at the treaty of Lancaster
  • 5. “ynuvaciones malas e rreprouadas”: seeking justice in early colonial pueblos de indios
  • Part II. At the boundaries of differing conceptions of justice
  • 6. “darling Indians” and “natural lords”: Virginia’s tributary regime and Florida’s republic of Indians in the seventeenth century
  • 7. Covering blood and graves: murder and law on imperial margins
  • 8. “sovereignty has lost its rights”: liberal experiments and indigenous citizenship in new Granada, 1810– 1819
  • Part III. Concluding perspectives
  • 9. In defense of ignorance: frameworks for legal politics in the Atlantic world
  • 10. Intelligibility or incommensurability?
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the editors
  • About the contributors
  • Index

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