| Description |
1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Early American studies |
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Early American studies.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
New World Orders juxtaposes case studies from Brazil to California to New York to explore the wide variety of legal and extralegal means by which social order was maintained in the early Americas |
| Analysis |
American History |
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American Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-353) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Violence -- America -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Violence
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Kolonialismus
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Sozialordnung
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Gewalt
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Slaveri -- Latinamerika.
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Rasism -- historia -- Amerika.
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Våld -- genusaspekter -- historia -- Amerika.
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| SUBJECT |
America -- History -- To 1810.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004264
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| Subject |
America
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Latinamerika -- sociala förhållanden -- historia.
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Förenta staterna -- sociala förhållanden -- historia.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smolenski, John
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Humphrey, Thomas J., 1965-
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| ISBN |
9780812290004 |
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0812290003 |
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0812219228 |
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9780812219227 |
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9780812238952 |
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0812238958 |
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