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, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812290004 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New World orders.DDC classification:
  • 973.2 23
LOC classification:
  • E18.82 .N485 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : the ordering of authority in the colonial Americas / John Smolenski -- 1.Law's wilderness : the discourse of English colonizing, the violence of intrusion, and the failures of American history / Christopher Tomlins -- 2.Dialogical encounters in a space of death / Richard Price -- 3.The authority of gender : marital discord and social order in colonial Quito / Kimberly Gauderman -- 4.Private and state violence against African slaves in lower Louisiana during the French period, 1699-1769 / Cecile Vidal -- 5.Violence or sex? : constructions of rape and race in early America / Sharon Block -- 6.The murder of Jacob Rabe : contesting Dutch colonial authority in the borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Mark Meuwese -- 7.Forging cultures of resistance on two colonial frontiers : Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Cynthia Radding -- 8.Sorcery and sovereignty : Senecas, citizens, and the contest for power and authority on the frontiers of the early American republic / Matthew Dennis -- 9.Early modern Spanish citizenship : inclusion and exclusion in the old and the new world / Tamar Herzog -- 10.Natural movements and dangerous spectacles : beatings, duels, and "play" in Saint Domingue / Gene E. Ogle -- 11.Racial passing : informal and official "whiteness" in colonial Spanish America / Ann Twinam.
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Introduction : the ordering of authority in the colonial Americas / John Smolenski -- 1.Law's wilderness : the discourse of English colonizing, the violence of intrusion, and the failures of American history / Christopher Tomlins -- 2.Dialogical encounters in a space of death / Richard Price -- 3.The authority of gender : marital discord and social order in colonial Quito / Kimberly Gauderman -- 4.Private and state violence against African slaves in lower Louisiana during the French period, 1699-1769 / Cecile Vidal -- 5.Violence or sex? : constructions of rape and race in early America / Sharon Block -- 6.The murder of Jacob Rabe : contesting Dutch colonial authority in the borderlands of Northeastern Brazil / Mark Meuwese -- 7.Forging cultures of resistance on two colonial frontiers : Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia / Cynthia Radding -- 8.Sorcery and sovereignty : Senecas, citizens, and the contest for power and authority on the frontiers of the early American republic / Matthew Dennis -- 9.Early modern Spanish citizenship : inclusion and exclusion in the old and the new world / Tamar Herzog -- 10.Natural movements and dangerous spectacles : beatings, duels, and "play" in Saint Domingue / Gene E. Ogle -- 11.Racial passing : informal and official "whiteness" in colonial Spanish America / Ann Twinam.

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