Cover -- Half Title -- Republics of Difference -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Republics and the Politics of Self-Governance -- Part I -- 1. Religious Republics in Seville, 1248-1502 -- 2. Lima's Indian Republics, 1532-1650 -- Part II -- 3. Institutionalizing Legal Difference in Castile -- 4. Aljama, or the Republic of Difference -- 5. Caciques and Local Governance in the Andes -- 6. Entangled Authority in the Lima Valley -- Part III -- 7. The Specters of Black Self-Governance -- 8. Walls and Law in Lima and Its Cercado
Republics of Difference is a groundbreaking study of Spanish imperial recognition of the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including communities of Jews and Muslims, indigenous peoples, and enslaved and free peoples of African descent, that shows how religiously- and racially-based self-governance functioned in a society with many kinds of law and how this enabled communities in late medieval Spain and colonial Latin America to protect their practices and cultures over time
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