Description: Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794).
Brief description: Christopher Albi is an associate professor of history at SUNY New Paltz.
Review Quotes: (A) comprehensive biography . . . this is not solely the history of one individual, but offers a wider panorama on the workings of a colonial governing system and the personalities that forged its operations.--Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, The Americas