Infidels and Empires in a New World Order
Infidels and Empires in a New World Order Before international relations in the West, there were Christian-infidel relations. In addition to telling this crucial yet overlooked story from the…
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Infidels and Empires in a New World Order
Before international relations in the West, there were Christian-infidel relations. 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. 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.
From Hern n Cort s to Samuel Purchas, and Bartolom de las Casas to New England Puritans, a host of unconventional colonial figures enter into conversation with Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo