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Fatal love : spousal killers, law, and punishment in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic /

For historians, spousal murders are significant for what they reveal about social and family history, in particular the hidden history of day-to-day gender relations, conflicts, crimes, and punishments. 'Fatal Love' examines this phenomenon in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic, focusing o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Uribe Urán, Victor (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Access to justice : domestic violence, laws, and procedures
  • Innocent infants? : Indians and domestic violence in colonial Mexico
  • The king's forgiveness : earthly intercessions and legal culture
  • Honor and punishment in late-eighteenth-century Spain
  • God's forgiveness : heavenly intercessions
  • Dangerous women : gender, ethnicity, and "domestic" disputes in New Granada
  • The many shades of pain and punishment in the Spanish Atlantic
  • Transition to independence : humanized justice and the reinvention of hegemony and coercion in the Spanish Atlantic.