How Long to Read Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

How Long Does it Take to Read Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 35 minutes to read Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico by Brian P. Owensby

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Description

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 dust of conquest had begun to settle after 1600. By juxtaposing hundreds of case records with written laws and treatises, Owensby reveals how Indians saw the law as a practical and moral resource that allowed them to gain a measure of control over their lives and to forge a relationship to a distant king. Several chapters elucidate central concepts of Indian claimants in their encounter with the law over the seventeenth century--royal protection, possession of property, liberty, notions of guilt, village autonomy and self-rule, and subjecthood. Owensby concludes that Indian engagement with Spanish law was the first early modern experiment in cosmopolitan legality, one that faced the problem of difference head on and sought to bridge the local and the international. In so doing, it enabled indigenous claimants to forge a colonial politics of justice that opened up space for a conversation between colonial rulers and ruled.

How long is Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico?

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico by Brian P. Owensby is 392 pages long, and a total of 98,784 words.

This makes it 132% the length of the average book. It also has 121% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 59 minutes to read Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico aloud.

What Reading Level is Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico?

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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