(Source: Cornell University Press)
Cornell University Press is
publishing a new book on just war theory and early modern imperial Spain.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Via rigorous study of the legal
arguments Spain developed to justify its acts of war and conquest, The
Other Side of Empire illuminates Spain's expansionary ventures in the
Mediterranean in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Andrew
Devereux proposes and explores an important yet hitherto unstudied connection
between the rationales that Spanish jurists and theologians developed in the
Mediterranean and in the Americas.
He limns the ways in which
Spaniards conceived of these two theatres of imperial ambition as complementary
parts of a whole. At precisely the moment that Spain was establishing its first
colonies in the Caribbean, the Crown directed a series of Old World conquests
that encompassed the Kingdom of Naples, Navarre, and a string of presidios
along the coast of North Africa. Projected conquests in the eastern
Mediterranean never took place, but the Crown seriously contemplated assaults
on Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Palestine. The Other Side of Empire elucidates
the relationship between the legal doctrines on which Spain based its
expansionary claims in the Old World and the New.
The Other Side of Empire vastly
expands our understanding of the ways in which Spaniards, at the dawn of the
early modern era, thought about religious and ethnic difference, and how this
informed political thought on just war and empire. While focusing on imperial
projects in the Mediterranean, it simultaneously presents a novel contextual
background for understanding the origins of European colonialism in the
Americas.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew W. Devereux teaches
history at the University of California, San Diego, and has published in
the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Medieval
Encounters, and Republics of Letters.
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