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Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico (Paperback)
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"Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico" shows how
Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal
principles and processes when the dust of conquest had begun to
settle after 1600. By juxtaposing hundreds of case records with
written laws and treatises, Owensby reveals how Indians saw the law
as a practical and moral resource that allowed them to gain a
measure of control over their lives and to forge a relationship to
a distant king. Several chapters elucidate central concepts of
Indian claimants in their encounter with the law over the
seventeenth century--royal protection, possession of property,
liberty, notions of guilt, village autonomy and self-rule, and
subjecthood. Owensby concludes that Indian engagement with Spanish
law was the first early modern experiment in cosmopolitan legality,
one that faced the problem of difference head on and sought to
bridge the local and the international. In so doing, it enabled
indigenous claimants to forge a colonial politics of justice that
opened up space for a conversation between colonial rulers and
ruled.
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