Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. Making law intelligible in comparative context 1
4. Part I. Mis-dialogues, code switching, and mixing languages of law
5. 2. Dialoguing with barbarians what natives said and how Europeans responded in late- seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Portuguese America 61
6. 3. defending and defrauding the Indians: john wompas, legal hybridity, and the sale of Indian land 89
7. 4. “since we came out of this ground”: Iroquois legal arguments at the treaty of Lancaster 118
8. 5. “ynuvaciones malas e rreprouadas”: seeking justice in early colonial pueblos de indios 151
9. Part II. At the boundaries of differing conceptions of justice
10. 6. “darling Indians” and “natural lords”: Virginia’s tributary regime and Florida’s republic of Indians in the seventeenth century 183
11. 7. Covering blood and graves: murder and law on imperial margins 213
12. 8. “sovereignty has lost its rights”: liberal experiments and indigenous citizenship in new Granada, 1810– 1819 238
13. Part III. Concluding perspectives
14. 9. In defense of ignorance: frameworks for legal politics in the Atlantic world 273
15. 10. Intelligibility or incommensurability? 291
16. Acknowledgments 307
17. About the editors 309
18. About the contributors 311
19. Index 315