{"product_id":"the-enlightened-patrolman-9781496219466","title":"The Enlightened Patrolman","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban patrolmen, known as \u003ci\u003eguarda faroleros\u003c\/i\u003e, or “lantern guards,” maintained the streetlamps and attempted to clear the streets of plebeian sexuality, embodiment, and sociability, all while enforcing late colonial racial policies amid frequent violent resistance from the populace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightened Patrolman\u003c\/i\u003e Nicole von Germeten guides readers through Mexico City’s efforts to envision and impose modern values as viewed through the lens of early law enforcement, an accelerated process of racialization of urban populations, and burgeoning ideas of modern masculinity. Germeten unfolds a tale of the losing struggle for elite control of the city streets. As surveillance increased and the populace resisted violently, a pause in th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clearly written and deeply researched, \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightened Patrolman\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers several things: a nuanced history of urban policing, a social history of nocturnal Mexico City in the decades before independence, and a case study of a failed Bourbon reform. It will appeal to both specialists and undergraduate students in upper-level colonial Mexican and Latin American courses.\"—Christopher Albi, \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Veritable intellectual dynamite—bursting with insights into colonial Mexico’s class and caste structures; exploding with new interpretations on criminality, law, poverty, and social order; and igniting new conversations on the linkages between surveillance, urban control, race, justice, and the Enlightenment. A masterwork of historical scholarship, \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightened Patrolman\u003c\/i\u003e finely represents social history at its best.”—Ben Vinson III, author of \u003ci\u003eBefore Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A richly textured reconstruction of the lowliest agents of late colonial order. . . . Combining small stories and a broad perspective, Germeten offers the first chapter of Mexico’s long history of resistance and negotiation of police power.”—Pablo Piccato, author of \u003ci\u003eA History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An outstanding book that will help to reshape our understanding of early modernity in the Spanish New World as well as the social and cultural history of race and gender in one of the great urban centers of the time.”—William B. Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eMagistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A groundbreaking examination of the roles of policing in its incipient forms in late colonial Mexico City.”—Sharon Bailey Glasco, author of \u003ci\u003eConstructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Light\u003cbr\u003e 2. Men Walking the Beat\u003cbr\u003e 3. To Protect and Serve\u003cbr\u003e 4. Nightlife\u003cbr\u003e 5. Guards in Trouble\u003cbr\u003e 6. Guards under Attack\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Night Watchmen, the Military, and Insurgency\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Mexico City Law Enforcement after Independence\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409229324631,"sku":"9781496219466","price":69.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496219466.jpg?v=1730506049","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-enlightened-patrolman-9781496219466","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}