The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire - Premo, Bianca
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The principal protagonists of this history of the Enlightenment are non-literate, poor, and enslaved colonial litigants who began to sue their superiors in the royal courts of the Spanish empire. With comparative data on civil litigation and close readings of the lawsuits, The Enlightenment on Trial explores how ordinary Spanish Americans actively produced modern concepts of law.

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The principal protagonists of this history of the Enlightenment are non-literate, poor, and enslaved colonial litigants who began to sue their superiors in the royal courts of the Spanish empire. With comparative data on civil litigation and close readings of the lawsuits, The Enlightenment on Trial explores how ordinary Spanish Americans actively produced modern concepts of law.
Autorenporträt
Bianca Premo is professor of History at Florida International University. She is the author of Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima and a co-editor of Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America.