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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America | |
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| Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the Conflictive Nature of Law and Justice | |
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| Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820 | |
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| Women, Order, and Progress in Guzm�n Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888 | |
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| Judges, Lawyers, and Farmers: Uses of Justice and the Circulation of Law in Rural Buenos Aires, 1900-1940 | |
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| Work, Property, and the Negotiation of Rights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1950 | |
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| The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime | |
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| The Criminalizaton of the Syphilitic Body: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867-1930 | |
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| Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Law and Literature, 1890-1922 | |
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| Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice in Argentina at the Turn of the Last Century | |
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| Cuidado con los Rateros: The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City | |
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| Contested Meanings of Punishment | |
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| The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Post-emancipation Jamaica | |
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| Death and Liberalism: Capital Punishment after the Fall of Rosas | |
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| Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890-1930: The Prisoners' Agena for Prison Reform | |
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| Girls in Prison: The Role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890-1940 | |
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| Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From the Prison Cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930-1950) | |
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| Afterword: Law and Society in Comparative Perspective | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |