New World Orders : Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas /

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As the geographic boundaries of early American history have expanded, so too have historians' attempts to explore the comparative dimensions of this history. At the same time, historians have struggled to find a conceptual framework flexible enough to incorporate the sweeping narratives of impe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Block, Sharon (Contribuidor), Dennis, Matthew (Contribuidor), Gauderman, Kimberly (Contribuidor), Herzog, Tamar (Contribuidor), Humphrey, Thomas J. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Meuwese, Mark (Contribuidor), Ogle, Gene E. (Contribuidor), Price, Richard (Contribuidor), Radding, Cynthia (Contribuidor), Smolenski, John (Contribuidor, Editor ), Tomlins, Christopher (Contribuidor), Twinam, Ann (Contribuidor), Vidal, Cecile (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Colección:Early American Studies
Temas:
Violence > America > History.
American Studies.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
American History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. The Ordering of Authority in the Colonial Americas
  • PART I. Narrating Violence and Legality
  • Introduction to Part I
  • Chapter 1. Law's Wilderness: The Discourse of English Colonizing, the Violence of Intrusion, and the Failures of American History
  • Chapter 2. Dialogical Encounters in a Space of Death
  • PART II. Authority and Intimate Violence
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter 3. The Authority of Gender: Marital Discord and Social Order in Colonial Quito
  • Chapter 4. Private and State Violence Against African Slaves in Lower Louisiana During the French Period, 1699-1769
  • Chapter 5. Violence or Sex? Constructions of Rape and Race in Early America
  • PART III. Colonial Space and Power
  • Introduction to Part III
  • Chapter 6. The Murder of Jacob Rabe: Contesting Dutch Colonial Authority in the Borderlands of Northeastern Brazil
  • Chapter 7. Forging Cultures of Resistance on Two Colonial Frontiers: Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia
  • Chapter 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
  • Chapter 9. Early Modern Spanish Citizenship: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Old and the New World
  • Chapter 10. Natural Movements and Dangerous Spectacles: Beatings, Duels, and "Play" in Saint Domingue
  • Chapter 11. Racial Passing: Informal and Official "Whiteness" in Colonial Spanish America
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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