Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-409) and index.
Contents:
Access to justice : domestic violence, laws, and procedures -- Innocent infants? : Indians and domestic violence in colonial Mexico -- The king's forgiveness : earthly intercessions and legal culture -- Honor and punishment in late-eighteenth-century Spain -- God's forgiveness : heavenly intercessions -- Dangerous women : gender, ethnicity, and "domestic" disputes in New Granada -- The many shades of pain and punishment in the Spanish Atlantic -- Transition to independence : humanized justice and the reinvention of hegemony and coercion in the Spanish Atlantic.
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