Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, & Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

by Nicole von Germeten

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony--colonial institutions that imposed order by enforcing Catholicism, cultural and religious boundaries, and prevailing race and gender hierarchies. The city was also simmering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826353959
• ISBN13: 9780826353955
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"