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Vitoria: Political Writings
Francisco Vitoria was the earliest and arguably the most important of the Thomist political philosophers of the Counter-Reformation. Not only did he write important essays on civil …
Letters from Mexico
Hernán Cortés’s Cartas de Relacíon, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding …
The Idea of Europe
Discusses how a distinctive 'European' identity has grown over the centuries, especially with the EU.
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las …
European Encounters with the New World
For more than three centuries after Columbus's voyages to America, Europeans pondered how the Old World's encounters with the New World affected European sensibilities and …
The Burdens of Empire
Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire …
The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
This volume studies the concept of a political ‘language’, of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has been widely influential on …
The Fall of Natural Man
This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to …
Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800
The Description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming.