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.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 1990.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-341) and index.
Source of description
Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
Language note
English
Contents
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
Other editions
The American Indian in Western Legal Thought : The Discourses of Conquest
ISBN
0-19-771826-4
1-280-44328-6
0-19-802173-9
OCLC
476012623
1406788052
605048514
Doi
10.1093/oso/9780195050226.001.0001
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