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Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people and the law. Building on a variety of methodological and theoretical trends—cultural history, subaltern studies, new political history, and others—the contributors share the conviction that law and legal phenomena are crucial elements in the formation and functioning of modern Latin American societies and, as such, need to be brought to the forefront of scholarly debates about the region’s past and present. While disassociating law from...
En esta obra de conjunto bajo el título Poder, sociedad y administración de justicia en la América Hispánica (siglos XVI-XIX), se reúnen los trabajos que, mediante comunicaciones, necesariamente breves, se presentaron en el XX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano celebrado en la sede de la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía en La Rábida (España) desde el lunes 16 al viernes 20 de septiembre de 2019.Hemos recogido en este libro setenta y dos artículos que corresponden a otras tantas comunicaciones que se expusieron durante el desarrollo del Congreso.