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Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico Brian P. Owensby
Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico
Brian P. Owensby
Empire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples.
408 pages, 6 maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 30, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804758635 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 392 |
| Dimensions | 237 × 160 × 28 mm · 680 g |
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