David M. Lantigua (Indiana University of Notre Dame)

Infidels and Empires in a New World Order

Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the ambivalent legacy of indigenous peoples' natural rights articulated by Europeans in Spanish and English colonial contexts. It will appeal to scholars of religion, law, international relations, Latin America, history, and politics interested in early modern religious and legal arguments for the dispossession and freedom of Amerindians.

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Produktdetails

• Law and Christianity
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 234mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781108498265
• ISBN-10: 1108498264
• Artikelnr.: 58380208

Autorenporträt

David M. Lantigua is Assistant Professor of Moral Theology and Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He was previously a faculty member at The Catholic University of America and was a former graduate fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. He co-authored, with Darrell Fasching and Dell deChant, Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics, 2nd edition (2011). He is also co-editor of Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights: A Brief History with Documents (2020), part of the Atlantic Crossings series.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. International relations beyond Westphalia; Part I. The New
World Crucible of Infidel Rights: 2. Theocratic world order and religious
wars; 3. Spanish Dominicans and the 'affair of the Indies'; 4. The politics
of natural law at Valladolid, 1550-1551; Part II. God, Empires, and
International Society: 5. From infidels to savages: empires of commerce and
natural rights; 6. The scholastic law of nations, native occupation, and
human solidarity.