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The enlightenment on trial : ordinary litigants and colonialism in the Spanish Empire /

"This is a history of the Enlightenment, the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved lit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Premo, Bianca (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Justice, Administration of > Latin America > History.
Law > Spain > Colonies > History.
Justice, Administration of
Latin America
Law > Spanish colonies
Law.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : why is it enlightenment?
  • Agents and powers : litigants and writers in the courts
  • Derecho and law : legal enlightenment in philosophy and policy
  • Numbers and values : counting cases in the Spanish Empire
  • Pleitos and lawsuits : conjugal conflicts in civil courts
  • Then and now : native status and custom
  • Being and becoming : freedom and slave lawsuits
  • Conclusion : why not enlightenment?
  • Appendix I. Archival methods
  • Appendix II. Analysis of civil litigation over time.