Bianca Premo. The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii + 361 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-063873-3; $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-063872-6.
Beth Lew-Williams. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 360 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-97601-6.
Reviewed by William Carrigan (Rowan University) Published on H-Law (May, 2018) Commissioned by Michael J. Pfeifer (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York)
Julian Lim. Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 320 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3550-7.
Reviewed by George T. Diaz (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) Published on H-Law (May, 2018) Commissioned by Laurent Corbeil (Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
