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 accountsPedro 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.
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