<div>An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of Bartolomé de las Casas &nbsp; With the exception of Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas is arguably the most notable figure of the Encounter Age. He is remembered principally as the creator of the Black Legend, as well as the protector of American Indians. He was one of the pioneers of the human rights movement, and a Christian activist who invoked law and Biblical scripture to challenge European colonialism in the great age of the Encounter. He was also one of the first and most thorough chroniclers of the conquest, and a biographer who saved the diary of Columbus's first voyage for posterity by transcribing it in his History of the Indies before the diary was lost. &nbsp; Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights: A Brief History with Documents provides the most wide-ranging and concise anthology of Las Casas's writings, in translation, ever made available. It contains not only excerpts from his most well-known texts, but also his largely unavailable writings on political philosophy and law, and addresses the underappreciated aspects of his thought. Fifteen of the twenty-six documents are entirely new translations of Las Casas's writings, a number of them appearing in English for the first time. &nbsp; This volume focuses on his historical, political, and legal writings that address the deeply conflicted and violent sixteenth-century encounter between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the Americas. It also presents Las Casas as a more comprehensive and systematic philosophical and legal thinker than he is typically given credit for. The introduction by Lawrence A. Clayton and David M. Lantigua places these writings into a synthetic whole, tracing his advocacy for indigenous peoples throughout his career. By considering Las Casas's ideas, actions, and even regrets in tandem, readers will understand the historical dynamics of Spanish imperialism more acutely within the social-political context of the times. &nbsp;</div>

Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights: A Brief History with Documents (Atlantic Crossings)

Biographies & Memoirs

Clayton, Lawrence A.

Lantigua, David M.

Community & Culture

University Alabama Press

Before international relations in the West, there were Christian-infidel relations. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order decenters the dominant story of international relations beginning with Westphalia in 1648 by looking a century earlier to the Spanish imperial debate at Valladolid addressing the conversion of native peoples of the Americas. In addition to telling this crucial yet overlooked story from the colonial margins of Western Europe, this book examines the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic to consider how the ambivalent status of the infidel other under natural law and the law of nations culminating at Valladolid shaped subsequent international relations in explicit but mostly obscure ways. From Hernán Cortés to Samuel Purchas, and Bartolomé de las Casas to New England Puritans, a host of unconventional colonial figures enter into conversation with Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, and John Locke to reveal astonishing religious continuities and dissonances in early modern international legal thought with important implications for contemporary global society.

Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought (Law and Christianity)

Religion & Spirituality

Cambridge University Press

Product Description Before international relations in the West, there were Christian-infidel relations. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order decenters the dominant story of international relations beginning with Westphalia in 1648 by looking a century earlier to the Spanish imperial debate at Valladolid addressing the conversion of native peoples of the Americas. In addition to telling this crucial yet overlooked story from the colonial margins of Western Europe, this book examines the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic to consider how the ambivalent status of the infidel other under natural law and the law of nations culminating at Valladolid shaped subsequent international relations in explicit but mostly obscure ways. From Hernán Cortés to Samuel Purchas, and Bartolomé de las Casas to New England Puritans, a host of unconventional colonial figures enter into conversation with Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, and John Locke to reveal astonishing religious continuities and dissonances in early modern international legal thought with important implications for contemporary global society. Review ‘In this beautifully written and exhaustively researched book, David Lantigua demonstrates the importance of sixteenth-century Spanish theological debates about the conquest of the New World for the subsequent development of international order and international law. Lantigua expertly reconstructs these debates, culminating in the Valladolid junta where Sepúlveda and Las Casas debated the justice of subjugating infidels for the purpose of spreading the Christian faith. In doing so, he uncovers theological arguments both for and against imperial conquest that would profoundly shape European thought and practice for centuries to come.’ Luke Glanville, author of Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities‘For long, the emergence of modern international relations has been seen essentially a universal, secular affair. Yet the first Western community with global aspirations was the Catholic Church and the earliest, and for some time the most influential, theorists of international relations and international law were the theologians. David Lantigua has written a powerfully compelling, wide-ranging and immensely erudite account of how these men, in particular the Dominicans of the so-called ‘School of Salamanca’, in their struggle to understand, legitimate and control the spread of Christianity through empire, raised so many of the intellectual concerns that still determine how we think about our global inter-connected world.’ Anthony Pagden, author of The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present‘The dark truth about conceptions of human rights is that they have been used both to include and to exclude those deemed worthy of membership in the human family. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order exposes the ways in which theological understandings of the distinct rights of infidels within Latin Christendom provided a key - and inadequately recognized - conceptual model for the rights of native peoples in the New World, sometimes in order to legitimate their political dispossession, but also, importantly, in order to defend their religious and political freedom over against imperial ambitions. In shifting our attention away from the Peace of Westphalia to theological debates that took place more than a century earlier at Valladolid, Lantigua’s study makes a vital contribution to a more adequate understanding of the complex character of early modern international law. Jennifer A. Herdt, author of Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition‘… Lantigua’s excellent book offers a productive and stimulating new reading of numerous well-known texts. The quality of the research and analysis is superb, and the resulting interpretation enlightening. Infidels and Empires will be indispensable for those interested in the intellectual history of early modern European debates on non-Christians’ politi

Infidels and Empires in a New World Order (Law and Christianity)

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Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics

Fasching, Darrell J.

Dechant, Dell

Christian Books & Bibles

Wiley/Blackwell

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