B. P. Owensby and R. J. Ross, Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America (NYU Press, 2018)
b'Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America (New York University Press, 2018), edited by Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross, examines the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World.\\n\\nAs British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions of justice and legality played out against one another as settlers and indigenous people sought to negotiate their relationship. In order for settlers and natives to learn from, maneuver, resist, or accommodate each other, they had to grasp something of each other\\u2019s legal ideas and conceptions of justice.\\n\\nThis ambitious volume advances our understanding of how natives and settlers in both the British and Iberian New World empires struggled to use the other\\u2019s ideas of law and justice as a political, strategic, and moral resource.\\xa0 In so doing, indigenous people and settlers alike changed their own practices of law and dialogue about justice.\\xa0 Europeans and natives appealed to imperfect understandings of their interlocutors\\u2019 notions of justice and advanced their own conceptions during workaday negotiations, disputes, and assertions of right.\\xa0 Settlers\\u2019 and indigenous peoples\\u2019 legal presuppositions shaped and sometimes misdirected their attempts to employ each other\\u2019s law.\\n\\nNatives and settlers construed and misconstrued each other\\u2019s legal commitments while learning about them, never quite sure whether they were on solid ground.\\xa0 Chapters explore the problem of \\u201clegal intelligibility\\u201d: How and to what extent did settler law and its associated notions of justice became intelligible\\u2014tactically, technically and morally\\u2014to natives, and vice versa?\\xa0 To address this question, the volume offers a critical comparison between English and Iberian New World empires.\\xa0 Chapters probe such topics as treaty negotiations, land sales, and the corporate privileges of indigenous peoples.\\xa0 Ultimately, Justice in a New World offers both a deeper understanding of the transformation of notions of justice and law among settlers and indigenous people, and a dual comparative study of what it means for laws and moral codes to be legally intelligible.\\n\\n\\n\\nRyan Tripp teaches a variety of History courses at Los Medanos Community College. He also teaches History courses for two universities. He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Davis, with a double minor that includes Native American Studies.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'