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1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations. |
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Early American studies
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| Contents |
Introduction : the ordering of authority in the colonial Americas / John Smolenski -- 1.Law's wilderness : the discourse of English colonizing, the violence of intrusion, and the failures of American history / Christopher Tomlins -- 2.Dialogical encounters in a space of death / Richard Price -- 3.The authority of gender : marital discord and social order in colonial Quito / Kimberly Gauderman -- 4.Private and state violence against African slaves in lower Louisiana during the French period, 1699-1769 / Cecile Vidal -- 5.Violence or sex? : constructions of rape and race in early America / Sharon Block -- 6.The murder of Jacob Rabe : contesting Dutch colonial authority in the borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Mark Meuwese -- 7.Forging cultures of resistance on two colonial frontiers : Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Cynthia Radding -- 8.Sorcery and sovereignty : Senecas, citizens, and the contest for power and authority on the frontiers of the early American republic / Matthew Dennis -- 9.Early modern Spanish citizenship : inclusion and exclusion in the old and the new world / Tamar Herzog -- 10.Natural movements and dangerous spectacles : beatings, duels, and "play" in Saint Domingue / Gene E. Ogle -- 11.Racial passing : informal and official "whiteness" in colonial Spanish America / Ann Twinam. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Violence -- America -- History.
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America -- History -- To 1810.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Smolenski, John.
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Humphrey, Thomas J., 1965-
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Print version: New World orders. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ; [2005] 362 pages ; 24 cm. Early American studies 9780812219227 (OCoLC)154800601 |
| ISBN |
9780812219227 |
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9780812290004 (electronic bk.) |
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