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New World orders : violence, sanction, and authority in the colonial Americas / edited by John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American studiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005Description: 362 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0812238958
  • 9780812238952
Other title:
  • Violence, sanction, and authority in the colonial Americas
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.2 22
LOC classification:
  • E18.82 .N485 2005
Contents:
Law's wilderness : the discourse of English colonizing, the violence of intrusion, and the failures of American history / Christopher Tomlins -- Dialogical encounters in a space of death / Richard Price -- The authority of gender : marital discord and social order in colonial Quito / Kimberly Gauderman -- Private and state violence against African slaves in lower Louisiana during the French period, 1699-1769 / Cécile Vidal -- Violence of sex? Constructions of rape and race in early America / Sharon Block -- The murder of Jacob Rabe : contesting Dutch colonial authority in the borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Mark Meuwese -- Forging cultures of resistance on two colonial frontiers : Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Cynthia Radding -- Sorcery and sovereignty : Senecas, citizens, and the contest for power and authority on the frontiers of the early American republic / Matthew Dennis -- Early modern Spanish citizenship : inclusion and exclusion the Old and the New World / Tamar Herzog -- Natural movements and dangerous spectacles : beatings, duels, and "play" in Saint Domingue / Gene E. Ogle -- Racial passing : informal and official "whiteness" in Colonial Spanish America / Ann Twinam.
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Weiss, David, 1946-.

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 / Christopher Tomlins -- Dialogical encounters in a space of death / Richard Price -- The authority of gender : marital discord and social order in colonial Quito / Kimberly Gauderman -- Private and state violence against African slaves in lower Louisiana during the French period, 1699-1769 / Cécile Vidal -- Violence of sex? Constructions of rape and race in early America / Sharon Block -- The murder of Jacob Rabe : contesting Dutch colonial authority in the borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Mark Meuwese -- Forging cultures of resistance on two colonial frontiers : Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Cynthia Radding -- Sorcery and sovereignty : Senecas, citizens, and the contest for power and authority on the frontiers of the early American republic / Matthew Dennis -- Early modern Spanish citizenship : inclusion and exclusion the Old and the New World / Tamar Herzog -- Natural movements and dangerous spectacles : beatings, duels, and "play" in Saint Domingue / Gene E. Ogle -- Racial passing : informal and official "whiteness" in Colonial Spanish America / Ann Twinam.

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