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J. H. Parry.
The Audiencia of New Galicia in the Sixteenth Century: A Study in Spanish Colonial Government.
Publisher: Cambridge U.P., 1968 reprint (previously issued 1948).
Series: Cambridge U.P. Library Editions series.
SBN 521073944.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK: John Dickens & Co., Northampton.
Size: 150x218x23mm.
Page count: xi,207pp inc. 1 monochrome map.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: ex‑lib. Westminster; ; the dustjacket is sealed under protective transparent plastic (now a little grubby), and fixed by the flyleaves to the insides of the book’s boards; it has an accession number stamped on its spine, but is otherwise not badly worn; the book itself looks in reasonable order, the usual library marks & stamps, but appears to be free of readers’ marks.


This item £12.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback £15.99]
Weight without packaging: 539g.

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A discussion of the day-to-day government of a remote Spanish province at a time when the disorders of conquest were giving way to a settled administration.

Contents: Part I — Subordinate Audiencia, 1548-72: Conquest of New Galicia; Foundation of the Audiencia; Audiencia & the Indians; Audiencia & the conquistadores; Audiencia & the Church; Reorganisation of the Audiencia, 1970-72; Part II — The Audiencia & the royal chancellery, 1572-1600: Administration; Jurisdiction & procedure; Conflicts of jurisdiction.


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