The Other Side of Empire: Just War in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Early Modern Spain

by Andrew Devereux

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 different rationales that Spanish jurists and theologians developed in the Mediterranean...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501740121
• ISBN13: 9781501740121
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher