Lawful Conquest? : : European Colonial Law and Appropriation Practices in Northeastern South America, Trinidad, and Tobago, 1498–1817 / / Constanze Weiske.
The global expansion of European colonization is commonly perceived as lawful according to the valid European colonial law of the time. This book is substantially challenging this belief by uncovering its legal justifications based on discovery and terra nullius as retrospectively created legal fict...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dialectics of the Global ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 343 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- On the Series
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 European Colonial Law and Appropriation Practices in the Americas
- Chapter 3 Spanish De Jure Myths (1493–1573)
- Chapter 4 Spanish Colonial Appropriation Practices in Terra Firme and Trinidad (1503–1591)
- Chapter 5 San Joseph de Oruña (1592–1802)
- Chapter 6 Santo Tome (1595–1699)
- Chapter 7 Violent Capuchin Removal and Spatial Extensions (1682–1817)
- Chapter 8 Dutch De Jure Myths (1581–1764)
- Chapter 9 Dutch Appropriation Practices on the Wild Coast and Tobago (1581–1673)
- Chapter 10 Essequibo and the Limits of Plantations (1670/75–1803)
- Chapter 11 Dutch Inland Posts and the Limits of Jurisdiction and Interference (1737–1790)
- Chapter 12 Dutch Posts on the “Wild Coast” and the Limits of Alliance (1678–1814)
- Chapter 13 Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Bibliography
- Index