The Enlightenment on trial : ordinary litigants and colonialism in the Spanish empire / Bianca Premo
- Author
- Premo, Bianca
- Published
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I SUING IN THE SPANISH EMPIRE -- 1.Agents and Powers: Litigants and Writers in the Courts -- 2.Derecho and Law: Legal Enlightenment in Philosophy and Policy -- 3.Numbers and Values: Counting Cases in the Spanish Empire -- pt. II LIGHTS FROM LITIGANTS -- 4.Pleitos and Lawsuits: Conjugal Conflicts in Civil Courts -- 5.Then and Now: Native Status and Custom -- 6.Being and Becoming: Freedom and Slave Lawsuits.
- Summary
- The principal protagonists of this history of the Enlightenment are non-literate, poor, and enslaved colonial litigants who began to sue their superiors in the royal courts of the Spanish empire. With comparative data on civil litigation and close readings of the lawsuits, 'The Enlightenment on Trial' explores how ordinary Spanish Americans actively produced modern concepts of law.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780190638764 (ebook)
- Audience Notes
- Specialized.
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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