Justice in a New World by Brian P. Owensby, Richard J. Ross - 9781479850129

Justice in a New WorldNegotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America\nAuthor(s): Brian P. Owensby, Richard J. Ross\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479850129, 978-1479850129\nSynopsis\nA historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World\n As British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions of justice and legality played out against one another as settlers and indigenous people sought to negotiate their relationship. In order for settlers and natives to learn from, maneuver, resist, or accommodate each other, they had to grasp something of each other's legal ideas and conceptions of justice.\n This ambitious volume advances our understanding of how natives and settlers in both the British and Iberian New World empires struggled to use the other's ideas of law and justice as a.