The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 write by Charles R. Cutter. This book was released on 2001-07. The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that resolved conflicts and meted out justice. But just how was this legal order imposed throughout the New World? Re-created here from six hundred civil and criminal cases are the procedural and ethical workings of the law in two of Spain's remote colonies--New Mexico and Texas in the eighteenth century. Professor Cutter challenges the traditional view that the legal system was inherently corrupt and irrelevant to the mass of society, and that local judicial officials were uninformed and inept. Instead he found that even in peripheral areas the lowest-level officials--thealcaldeor town magistrate--had a greater impact on daily life and a keener understanding of the law than previously acknowledged by historians. These local officials exhibited flexibility and sensitivity to frontier conditions, and their rulings generally conformed to community expectations of justice. By examining colonial legal culture, Cutter reveals the attitudes of settlers, their notions of right and wrong, and how they fixed a boundary between proper and improper actions. "A superlative work."--Marc Simmons, author ofSpanish Government in New Mexico
Judicial Practice in Northern New Spain, 1700-1810
Judicial Practice in Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Judicial Practice in Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 write by Charles Ross Cutter. This book was released on 1989. Judicial Practice in Northern New Spain, 1700-1810 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Independence of Spanish America
The Independence of Spanish America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Independence of Spanish America write by Jaime E. Rodríguez O.. This book was released on 1998-05-13. The Independence of Spanish America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a new interpretation of Spanish American independence, emphasising political processes.
Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas
Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas write by Donald E. Chipman. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas, Donald Chipman and Harriett Joseph combined dramatic, real-life incidents, biographical sketches, and historical background to reveal the real human beings behind the legendary figures who discovered, explored, and settled Spanish Texas from 1528 to 1821. Drawing from their earlier book and adapting the language and subject matter to the reading level and interests of middle and high school students, the authors here present the men and women of Spanish Texas for young adult readers and their teachers. These biographies demonstrate how much we have in common with our early forebears. Profiled in this book are: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: Ragged Castaway Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: Golden Conquistador María de Agreda: Lady in Blue Alonso de León: Texas Pathfinder Domingo Terán de los Ríos / Francisco Hidalgo: Angry Governor and Man with a Mission Louis St. Denis / Manuela Sánchez: Cavalier and His Bride Antonio Margil de Jesús: God's Donkey Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo: Chicken War Redeemer Felipe de Rábago y Terán: Sinful Captain José de Escandón y Elguera: Father of South Texas Athanase de Mézières: Troubled Indian Agent Domingo Cabello: Comanche Peacemaker Marqués de Rubí / Antonio Gil Ibarvo: Harsh Inspector and Father of East Texas Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara / Joaquín de Arredondo: Rebel Captain and Vengeful Royalist Women in Colonial Texas: Pioneer Settlers Women and the Law: Rights and Responsibilities
The Time of Liberty
The Time of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Time of Liberty write by Peter Guardino. This book was released on 2005-04-06. The Time of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift as monarchist colonies gave way to independent states based at least nominally on popular sovereignty and republican citizenship. In The Time of Liberty, Peter Guardino explores the participation of subalterns in this grand transformation. He focuses on Mexico, comparing local politics in two parts of Oaxaca: the mestizo, urban Oaxaca City and the rural villages of nearby Villa Alta, where the population was mostly indigenous. Guardino challenges traditional assumptions that poverty and isolation alienated rural peasants from the political process. He shows that peasants and other subalterns were conscious and complex actors in political and ideological struggles and that popular politics played an important role in national politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. Guardino makes extensive use of archival materials, including judicial transcripts and newspaper accounts, to illuminate the dramatic contrasts between the local politics of the city and of the countryside, describing in detail how both sets of citizens spoke and acted politically. He contends that although it was the elites who initiated the national change to republicanism, the transition took root only when engaged by subalterns. He convincingly argues that various aspects of the new political paradigms found adherents among even some of the most isolated segments of society and that any subsequent failure of electoral politics was due to an absence of pluralism rather than a lack of widespread political participation.
