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The business of conquest : empire, love, and law in the Atlantic world /

The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But in The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World, Nicole D. Legnani demonstra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Legnani, Nicole Delia, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: setting sail with Felipce Guaman Poma de Ayala (1550-1616)
  • On the same boat: Iberian ventures in Christian conquest
  • Contracting love interests
  • Telling islands in the Claribalte and the Historia de las Indias
  • The spector of Las Casas in the political theology of Jose de Acosta
  • The bidding of empire : the Curacas negotiate dominion with Philip II
  • Epilogue: (no) exit: the maroons of Empire.