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Murder in Mérida, 1792 : violence, factions, and the law /

"During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Mérida, Yucatan, and murdered the province's top royal official, don Lucas de Galvez. This book recounts the mystery of the Galvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lentz, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuqerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Province at risk
  • The intendant's enemies: Chronicle of an assassination foretold
  • The suspects of 1792: Prosecuting the powerless
  • Neither free nor family: Criados and slaves in Spanish households
  • Into the countryside: Outsiders, intermediaries, and the Maya world
  • A stratified cah, united by language: Cabildos, church auxiliaries, and Indios Hidalgos
  • Divided at the top: Politics of the personal
  • A strange turn of events.