Justice by Insurance: The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico & the Legal Aides of the Half Real Tapa dura - 1983

University of California Press, 10/11/1983 12:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 1.5000 9.3000 6.4000.

University of California, 1983. Hardcover. Very good/Good - Some dark scuffs, crumpled corner. Dark smudges..

xviii+479 pages with maps, tables, glossary, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. As Western Europe expanded its empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it came to dominate many peoples, especially in America, whose cultures and legal systems differed dramatically from its own. The resulting conflicts of both law and custom posed difficult problems: How could these conflicting laws and customs be adjusted within a common political administration? And, in particular, how could legal remedy be provided for groups of lesser political weight? Woodrow Borah vividly depicts one of the more unusual institutions that arose in response to these problems the General Indian Court of New Spain. In what is today Mexico, the conquering Spaniards had at first attempted to preserve such Indian customs as were deemed not contrary to reason or Christianity. However, as interpreted by… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of California Press. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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