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Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic
Victor M. Uribe-Uran
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Description for Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic
Hardback. A revisionist and highly readable social and legal history of spousal murder in Spain, Colombia and Mexico, challenging dominant notions about the evolution of punishment and the character of legal, ethnic and gender relations and the culture of honor in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 237 x 34. Weight in Grams: 800.
One night in December 1800, in the distant mission outpost of San Antonio in northern Mexico, Eulalia Californio and her lover Primo plotted the murder of her abusive husband. While the victim was sleeping, Prio and his brother tied a rope around Juan Californio's neck. One of them sat on his body while the other pulled on the rope and the woman, grabbing her husband by the legs, pulled in the opposite direction. After Juan Californio suffocated, Eulalia ran to the mission and reported that her husband had choked while chewing tobacco. Suspicious, the mission priests reported the crime to ... Read more
One night in December 1800, in the distant mission outpost of San Antonio in northern Mexico, Eulalia Californio and her lover Primo plotted the murder of her abusive husband. While the victim was sleeping, Prio and his brother tied a rope around Juan Californio's neck. One of them sat on his body while the other pulled on the rope and the woman, grabbing her husband by the legs, pulled in the opposite direction. After Juan Californio suffocated, Eulalia ran to the mission and reported that her husband had choked while chewing tobacco. Suspicious, the mission priests reported the crime to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
455
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804794633
SKU
V9780804794633
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About Victor M. Uribe-Uran
Victor M. Uribe-Uran is Associate Professor of History and of Law at Florida International University. He is the author of Honorable Lives: Lawyers, Family, and Politics in Colombia, 1780-1850 and the editor of State and Society in Spanish America during the Age of Revolution.
Reviews for Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic
This book is exceptional in its archival coverage as well as its historiographical depth. Its revisionist interpretations of existing scholarship will be welcomed by scholars.
Ann Twinam A highly valuable contribution to the history of social violence and Spanish law both in the metropolis and the colonies.
Eric Van Young, University of California
San ... Read more
Ann Twinam A highly valuable contribution to the history of social violence and Spanish law both in the metropolis and the colonies.
Eric Van Young, University of California
San ... Read more