Burdens of Empire

Burdens of Empire

1539 to the Present

Pagden, Anthony

Cambridge University Press

03/2015

302

Dura

Inglês

9780521198271

15 a 20 dias

520

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1. Introduction; 2. Defending empire: the 'school of Salamanca' and the 'affair of the Indies'; 3. 'Making barbarians into gentle peoples': Alberico Gentili on the legitimacy of empire; 4. The peopling of the New World: ethnos, race and empire in the early modern world; 5. Conquest, settlement, purchase and concession: justifying the English occupation of the Americas; 6. Occupying the ocean: Hugo Grotius and Serafim de Freitas on the rights of discovery and occupation; 7. Cambiar su ser: reform to revolution in the political imaginary of the Ibero-American world; 8. From the 'right of nations' to the 'cosmopolitan right': Immanuel Kant's law of continuity and the limits of empire; 9. 'Savage impulse-civilised calculation': conquest, commerce and the Enlightenment critique of empire; 10. Human rights, natural rights and Europe's imperial legacy.
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