Justice in a new world : negotiating legal intelligibility in British, Iberian, and indigenous America / edited by Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross.
2018
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Title
Justice in a new world : 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]
Description
viii, 330 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Making law intelligible in comparative context / Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross
Part I. Mis-dialogues, code switching, and mixing languages of law. Dialoguing with barbarians : what natives said and how 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
Part II. At the boundaries of differing conceptions of justice. "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
Part III. Concluding perspectives. In defense of ignorance : frameworks for legal politics in the Atlantic world / Lauren Benton
Intelligibility or incommensurability? / Daniel K. Richter.
Part I. Mis-dialogues, code switching, and mixing languages of law. Dialoguing with barbarians : what natives said and how 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
Part II. At the boundaries of differing conceptions of justice. "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
Part III. Concluding perspectives. In defense of ignorance : frameworks for legal politics in the Atlantic world / Lauren Benton
Intelligibility or incommensurability? / Daniel K. Richter.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
KDZ481 .J869 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781479850129 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1479850128 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781479807246 paperback ; alkaline paper
1479807249 paperback ; alkaline paper
1479850128 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781479807246 paperback ; alkaline paper
1479807249 paperback ; alkaline paper
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