Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili on the Juridical Status of Native American Polities
Over the course of the sixteenth century, Europeans writing about the ius gentium went from treating indigenous American rulers as the juridical equals of Europe's princes to depicting them as little more than savage brutes, incapable of bearing dominium and ineligible for the protections of th...
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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