Exemplary Violence
| Author | : Alberto Villate-Isaza |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2021-03-12 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781684482634 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1684482631 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (631 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Exemplary Violence by : Alberto Villate-Isaza
Download or read book Exemplary Violence written by Alberto Villate-Isaza and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts—Pedro Simón’s Noticias historiales, Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita’s Historia general—each of which reveals the colonizer’s reliance on the threat of violence to sustain order.
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