Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

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2008
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Empire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples.

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Empire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 15 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 0804758638
ISBN 13: 9780804758635

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

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$164.23

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$164.23

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