The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City

by Nicole von Germeten

Book Overview

When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban patrolmen, known as guarda faroleros, or "lantern guards," maintained the streetlamps and attempted to clear the streets of plebeian sexuality, embodiment, and sociability, all while enforcing late colonial racial policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496233077
• ISBN13: 9781496233073
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"