1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481302503321

Autore

Tertullian approximately 160-230

Titolo

Ex libris Tertulliani De execrandis gentium diis fragmentum erutum e bibliotheca Vaticana a Iosepho Maria Suaresio Auenionensi [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rome, : [s.n.], 1630

Descrizione fisica

Online resource ([8] c., 8°)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963324103321

Autore

Williams Robert A. <1955->

Titolo

The American Indian in western legal thought : the discourses of conquest / / Robert A. Williams, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London, : Oxford University Press, 1992, c1990

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-771826-4

1-280-44328-6

0-19-802173-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

346.73013347.30613

347.30613

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc - History - Sources

Indians of North America - Government relations - History - Sources

Indians of North America - Politics and government - History - Sources

Racism - United States - History - Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1990.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-341) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Medieval and Renaissance Origins of the Status of the American Indian in Western Legal Thought; 1. The Medieval Discourse of Crusade; 2. The Perfect Instrument of Empire: The Colonizing Discourse of Renaissance Spain; 3. The Protestant Translation of Medieval and Renaissance Discourses on the Rights and Status of American Indians; 4. The Elizabethan Wars for America; 5. The English Conquest of Virginia; Part III: The Norman Yoke: The American Indian and the Settling of United States Colonizing Legal Theory; 6. The Norman Yoke

7. The Colonists' War for AmericaConclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The author traces the evolution of legal thought on the rights and status of the American Indian and indigenous tribal peoples, and argues for the rejection of Western legal conceptions that reduce tribal peoples to culturally, politically, and morally inferior beings.