by Alberto Villate-Isaza
Bucknell University Press, 2021
Cloth: 978-1-68448-262-7 | Paper: 978-1-68448-261-0 | eISBN: 978-1-68448-264-1
Library of Congress Classification F2272.V595 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 986.102

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.