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Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal principles and processes when the dus

Brian P. Owensby is Associate Professor in the University of Virginia's Corcoran Department of History. He is the author of Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the

This book is a history of Asian slaves in colonial Mexico and their journey from bondage to freedom.

Provides the first detailed analysis of the evolution of the concept of corruption in colonial Mexico.

Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyaltie