Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial by Brian P. Owensby PAPERBACK

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico\nby Brian P. Owensby\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Brian P. Owensby\nTitle: Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: MK - Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804776622\nISBN-10: 0804776628\nRRP: \u00A329.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nEmpire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples.\n\nEmpire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and p.