Justice in a New World
Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4775209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon Parmenter (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 733-734 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaz534 |
| OpenAlex | W2991688560 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Most of the essays in this provocative edited collection originated from an academic conference. To an uncommon degree, this volume captures much of the intellectual give and take of such a venue. The editors deserve praise for their willingness to incorporate diverse, even conflicting, perspectives on the multiple intersections of law with colonialism in Iberian American and Anglo-American contexts. Emphasizing the “extraordinary variability” in the ways various indigenous and settler populations addressed the problem of understanding the other side's ideas of legality, the book provides a useful entrée into this emerging field of colonial studies (p. 22). The essays are framed around a classic comparative assessment of, on the one hand, an Iberian colonialism that sought to integrate indigenous peoples and, on the other hand, an exclusionist orientation long considered integral to how English models of settler colonialism dealt with indigenous populations. The contributions offer fresh insights into how various processes of settler intrusion in the Western Hemisphere were understood in legal terms by contemporaries. Two chapters (by Nancy O. Gallman and Alan Taylor, and Bradley Dixon) make explicit comparisons between circumstances in English and Spanish colonies; five other chapters address either English or Spanish contexts only. North American specialists will appreciate Jenny Hale Pulsipher's striking new findings on native land sales in colonial New England and Craig Yirush's effort to articulate Iroquois renderings of their legal rights in the 1744 Treaty of Lancaster. Of the three discrete Latin American chapters, Marcella Echeverri's study of creole republican efforts in early nineteenth-century New Granada to liberate indigenous peoples of the imperial burden of tribute payments, while simultaneously endeavoring to dissolve their communal lands, offers the richest comparative insights with U.S. settler colonialism
Colonialism · Creole language · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Treaty · Anthropology · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Legal Systems and Institutions
Literatura Normativa Pragmática e a Produção de Conhecimento Normativo nos Impérios Ibéricos do Início da Idade Moderna (Séculos XVI-XVII)
Knowledge of the Pragmatici
Indigenous Rights in Settler Colonies
To Rule by Customes
Gone a Hunting
Customs apart
Legal Files and Empires
Territorial Rights for Individuals, States, orPueblos? Answers from Indigenous Land Struggles in Colonial Spanish America
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |