The enlightenment on trial ordinary litigants and colonialism in the Spanish empire

The enlightenment on trial : ordinary litigants and colonialism in the Spanish empire / Bianca Premo.

Author/creator	Premo, Bianca
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Description	xiii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History
Subject(s)	Justice, Administration of--Latin America --History. Law--Spain --Colonies --History.

Contents	Introduction : why is it enlightenment? -- Agents and powers : litigants and writers in the courts -- Derecho and law : legal enlightenment in philosophy and policy -- Numbers and values : counting cases in the Spanish empire -- Pleitos and lawsuits : conjugal conflicts in civil courts -- Then and now : native status and custom -- Being and becoming : freedom and slave lawsuits -- Conclusion : why not enlightenment? -- Appendix I. Archival methods -- Appendix II. Analysis of civil litigation over time.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2016041019
ISBN	9780190638733 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780190638726 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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