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.