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Upholding Justice - Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650-1750) (Hardcover)
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Upholding Justice - Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650-1750) (Hardcover)
Series: History, Languages & Cultures of the Spanish & Portuguese Worlds
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In colonies like Quito, order was typically maintained by local,
private law enforcement, while weak and impoverished bureaucratic
infrastructures receded into the background. Judicial
administration was therefore open to the influences of social
networks, rumor, and reputation. Upholding justice was a communal
rather than a state-run enterprise, and the dominating rules were
social and theological rather than legal. Herzog's combination of
legal and historical analysis challenges the traditional paradigm
in which the state was born under Spain's Catholic monarchs and
only later exported to Spanish America. Her research reveals a more
integrated and less oppositional relationship between the state and
early modern society. Including both a specific case study and an
innovative framework for the study of interactions between society,
law, and the state, Upholding Justice will interest scholars of
history, Latin American studies, anthropology, law, and political
science. Tamar Herzog is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Chicago.
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