The Business of Conquest

The Business of Conquest
Author :
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages : 348
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780268108984
ISBN-13 : 0268108986
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Business of Conquest by : Nicole D. Legnani

Download or read book The Business of Conquest written by Nicole D. Legnani and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But in The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World, Nicole D. Legnani demonstrates how the financing and partnerships behind early expeditions betray their own praxis of imperial power as a business, even as the laws of the Indies were being written. She interrogates how and why apologists of Spanish Christian empire, such as José de Acosta, found themselves justifying the Spanish conquest as little more than a joint venture between crown and church that relied on violent actors in pursuit of material profits but that nonetheless served to propagate Christianity in overseas territories. Focusing on cultural and economic factors at play, and examining not only the chroniclers of the era but also laws, contracts, theological treatises, histories, and chivalric fiction, Legnani traces the relationship between capital investment, monarchical power, and imperial scalability in the Conquest. In particular, she shows how the Christian virtue of caritas (love and charity of neighbor, and thus God) became confused with cupiditas (greed and lust), because love came to be understood as a form of wealth in the partnership between the crown and the church. In this partnership, the work of the conquistador became, ultimately, that of a traveling business agent for the Spanish empire whose excess from one venture capitalized the next. This business was thus the business of conquest and featured entrepreneurial violence as its norm—not exception. The Business of Conquest offers an original examination of this period, including the perspectives of both the creators of the colonial world (monarchs, venture capitalists, conquerors, and officials), of religious figures (such as Las Casas), and finally of indigenous points of view to show how a venture capital model can be used to analyze the partnership between crown and church. It will appeal to students and scholars of the early modern period, Latin American colonial studies, capitalism, history, and indigenous studies.


The Business of Conquest Related Books

The Business of Conquest
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Nicole D. Legnani
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-15 - Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind nat
The Business of Conquest
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Nicole D. Legnani
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-15 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind nat
The Conquest of Cool
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Thomas Frank
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Looks at advertising during the 1960s, focusing on the relationship between the counterculture movement and commerce.
A Book of Conquest
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Manan Ahmed Asif
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-19 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Frontier
Conquest
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: David Day
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The history of the world has been the history of peoples on the move, as they occupy new lands and establish their claims over them. Almost invariably, this ha