Exemplary Violence
Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia
Seiten
2021
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-262-7 (ISBN)
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-262-7 (ISBN)
Explores Colombia's violent colonial history by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela), each of which reveals the colonizing elite's reliance on a constant threat of violence for sustaining colonial order.
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.
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.
ALBERTO VILLATE-ISAZA is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia, where he specializes in Latin American colonial literature, culture, and historiography, particularly in the New Kingdom of Granada.
Preface
Introduction
PART I Narrative Tensions
1 A Rhetorical Balancing Act
2 Instructing through Negative Examples
3 Nudity Is the Disguise: Political and Moral Instruction
PART II Authority and Evasion
4 The Authority to Displace and Adapt the Past
5 Founding Principles
6 The Constant Threat of Beauty and Wealth
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.03.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | n-a |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 458 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68448-262-3 / 1684482623 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68448-262-7 / 9781684482627 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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