Author: Charles Edward ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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The Founding of Spanish California
Author: Charles Edward ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Founding of Spanish California
Author: Charles Edward ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810
Author: Charles R. CutterPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826327758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that resolved conflicts and meted out justice. But just how was this legal order imposed throughout the New World? Re-created here from six hundred civil and criminal cases are the procedural and ethical workings of the law in two of Spain's remote colonies--New Mexico and Texas in the eighteenth century. Professor Cutter challenges the traditional view that the legal system was inherently corrupt and irrelevant to the mass of society, and that local judicial officials were uninformed and inept. Instead he found that even in peripheral areas the lowest-level officials--thealcaldeor town magistrate--had a greater impact on daily life and a keener understanding of the law than previously acknowledged by historians. These local officials exhibited flexibility and sensitivity to frontier conditions, and their rulings generally conformed to community expectations of justice. By examining colonial legal culture, Cutter reveals the attitudes of settlers, their notions of right and wrong, and how they fixed a boundary between proper and improper actions. "A superlative work."--Marc Simmons, author ofSpanish Government in New Mexico
A History of Spain
Author: Charles Edward ChapmanPublisher:
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The general and departmental libraries
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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The History of the Santa Clara Valley, Spanish Period
Author: Lalla Rookh BoonePublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763
Author: Paul W. MappPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus on the Atlantic world, Paul W. Mapp demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions to early American history and shows that a Pacific focus is crucial to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years' War.
Political Science Quarterly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
A review devoted to the historical statistical and comparative study of politics, economics and public law.
Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
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