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Justice in a new world negotiating legal intelligibility in British, Iberian, and indigenous America

Title
Justice in a new world [electronic resource] : negotiating legal intelligibility in British, Iberian, and indigenous America / edited by Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2018]

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Additional Authors
  • Owensby, Brian Philip, 1959-
  • Ross, Richard Jeffrey.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 330 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
Justice in a new world (Online)
Subject
  • Indians > Legal status, laws, etc. > History
  • Colonies > America > Law and legislation
  • American > History > To 1810
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Making law intelligible in comparative context / Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross -- Dialoguing with barbarians : what natives said and what Europeans responded in late seventeenth and eighteenth century Portuguese America / Tamar Herzog -- Defending and defrauding the Indians : John Wompas, legal hybridity, and the sale of Indian land / Jenny Hale Pulsipher -- "Since we came out of this ground" : Iroquois legal arguments at the Treaty of Lancaster / Craig Yirush -- "Ynuvaciones malas e rreprouadas" : seeking justice in early colonial pueblos de Indios / Karen B. Graubart -- "Darling Indians" and "natural lords" : Virginia's tributary regime and Florida's republic of Indians in the seventeenth century / Bradley Dixon -- Covering blood and graves : murder and law on imperial margins / Nancy O. Gallman and Alan Taylor -- "Sovereignty has lost its rights" : liberal experiments and indigenous citizenship in New Granada, 1810-1819 / Marcela Echeverri -- In defense of ignorance : frameworks for legal politics in the Atlantic world / Lauren Benton -- Intelligibility or incommensurability? / Daniel K. Richter.
LCCN
2017054990
OCLC
ssj0002034217
Title
Justice in a new world [electronic resource] : negotiating legal intelligibility in British, Iberian, and indigenous America / edited by Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross.
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Owensby, Brian Philip, 1959-
Ross, Richard Jeffrey.
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