Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia

Authors

Alberto Villate-Isaza

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Publication Date

2021

Description

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.

Keywords

Columbian history, Columbia, civilization, conquest, violence, intellectual life, Venezuela, Latin America, Latin American Literature, literature, colonial, seventeenth-century, New Kingdom of Granada, Pedro Simón’s Noticias historiales, Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita’s Historia general, Counter-Reformation Catholic orthodoxy, European culture, New Kingdom, colonial era, Colonialism

Rights

Copyright © 2021 by Alberto Villate-Isaza All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Bucknell University Press, Hildreth-Mirza Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837-2005. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law.

Type

text, 244 pages

Language

eng

ISBN

9781684482658