Exemplary Violence by Alberto Villate-Isaza - 9781684482610

Exemplary ViolenceRewriting History in Colonial Colombia\nAuthor(s): Alberto Villate-Isaza\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781684482610, 978-1684482610\nSynopsis\nExemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accountsPedro Simn's Noticias historiales, Juan Rodrguez Freile's El carnero, and Lucas Fernndez de Piedrahita's Historia generaleach of which reveals the colonizer's reliance on the threat of violence to sustain order.