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Uribe Urán, Victor,

Fatal love : spousal killers, law, and punishment in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic / Victor M. Uribe-Urán. - 1 online resource (456 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access to justice : domestic violence, laws, and procedures -- Innocent infants? : Indians and domestic violence in colonial Mexico -- The king's forgiveness : earthly intercessions and legal culture -- Honor and punishment in late-eighteenth-century Spain -- God's forgiveness : heavenly intercessions -- Dangerous women : gender, ethnicity, and "domestic" disputes in New Granada -- The many shades of pain and punishment in the Spanish Atlantic -- Transition to independence : humanized justice and the reinvention of hegemony and coercion in the Spanish Atlantic.

ISBN: 9780804796316 (e-book)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Uxoricide--History.--Mexico
Uxoricide--History.--Spain
Uxoricide--History.--Colombia
Mariticide--History.--Mexico
Mariticide--History.--Spain
Mariticide--History.--Colombia
Criminal justice, Administration of--History.--Mexico
Criminal justice, Administration of--History.--Spain
Criminal justice, Administration of--History.--Colombia

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV6542 / .U75 2016eb

Dewey Class. No.: 364.152/3