New World orders : violence, sanction, and authority in the colonial Americas /
New World orders : violence, sanction, and authority in the colonial Americas /
Violence, sanction, and authority in the colonial Americas
edited by John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey.
- 362 pages ; 24 cm.
- Early American studies .
- Early American studies. .
Weiss, David,
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-353) and index.
Law's wilderness : the discourse of English colonizing, the violence of intrusion, and the failures of American history / Dialogical encounters in a space of death / The authority of gender : marital discord and social order in colonial Quito / Private and state violence against African slaves in lower Louisiana during the French period, 1699-1769 / Violence of sex? Constructions of rape and race in early America / The murder of Jacob Rabe : contesting Dutch colonial authority in the borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Forging cultures of resistance on two colonial frontiers : Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Sorcery and sovereignty : Senecas, citizens, and the contest for power and authority on the frontiers of the early American republic / Early modern Spanish citizenship : inclusion and exclusion the Old and the New World / Natural movements and dangerous spectacles : beatings, duels, and "play" in Saint Domingue / Racial passing : informal and official "whiteness" in Colonial Spanish America / Christopher Tomlins -- Richard Price -- Kimberly Gauderman -- Cécile Vidal -- Sharon Block -- Mark Meuwese -- Cynthia Radding -- Matthew Dennis -- Tamar Herzog -- Gene E. Ogle -- Ann Twinam.
0812238958 9780812238952
2005042306
Violence--History--America
America--History--To 1810
E18.82 / .N485 2005
973.2
Weiss, David,
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-353) and index.
Law's wilderness : the discourse of English colonizing, the violence of intrusion, and the failures of American history / Dialogical encounters in a space of death / The authority of gender : marital discord and social order in colonial Quito / Private and state violence against African slaves in lower Louisiana during the French period, 1699-1769 / Violence of sex? Constructions of rape and race in early America / The murder of Jacob Rabe : contesting Dutch colonial authority in the borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Forging cultures of resistance on two colonial frontiers : Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Sorcery and sovereignty : Senecas, citizens, and the contest for power and authority on the frontiers of the early American republic / Early modern Spanish citizenship : inclusion and exclusion the Old and the New World / Natural movements and dangerous spectacles : beatings, duels, and "play" in Saint Domingue / Racial passing : informal and official "whiteness" in Colonial Spanish America / Christopher Tomlins -- Richard Price -- Kimberly Gauderman -- Cécile Vidal -- Sharon Block -- Mark Meuwese -- Cynthia Radding -- Matthew Dennis -- Tamar Herzog -- Gene E. Ogle -- Ann Twinam.
0812238958 9780812238952
2005042306
Violence--History--America
America--History--To 1810
E18.82 / .N485 2005
973.2