The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire

by Bianca Premo

Book Overview

This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants who sued their superiors in the royal courts of Spain's American colonies.

Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190638737
• ISBN13: 9780190638733
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"