The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies: Barbarism and Political Order

ISBN-13: 9781032094724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 290 str.

Natsuko Matsumori

Opis

The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies explores the significance of the Salamancans and related thinkers in the formation of the early-modern political order. It is ideal for academics and postgraduate students of intellectual history and of Spanish colonial expansion.

Spis treści

Chapter I: The Early-Modern Understanding of Political Order and the School of Salamanca; Chapter II: Reason and Prudence: The Nature of the Indians; Chapter III: Power, Commonwealth, and the Law of Nations: The Legitimacy of the Spanish Dominion over the Indies; Chapter IV: Conditions of Just War: The Conquest of the Indies; Chapter V: Significance and Problems of the Salamancan Understanding of Political Order

O autorze

Natsuko Matsumori is Associate Professor of Political Thought at the University of Shizuoka, Japan. She researches the scholastic influence on the formation of the early-modern political order and her previous publications include Civilización y barbarie (2005, in Spanish) and From Barbarism to Order (2009, in Japanese).