TY - BOOK AU - Devereux,Andrew W. TI - The Other Side of Empire: Just War in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Early Modern Spain SN - 9781501740121 AV - DP162 .D48 2021 U1 - 946.03 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Ithaca, NY : PB - Cornell University Press, KW - Just war doctrine KW - History KW - War KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Spain KW - Religious aspects KW - Catholic Church KW - Legal History & Studies KW - West European History KW - HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal KW - bisacsh KW - Spain, King Ferdinand of Aragon, Ferdinand the Catholic, Spanish Empire, Juan López de Palacios Rubios N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Terminology --; Introduction --; Part I --; 1. The Mediterranean in the Spanish Imaginary During the Age of Exploration --; 2. The Christian Commonwealth Besieged --; Part II --; 3. The Turk Within --; 4. The African Horizon --; 5. The Eastern Chimera --; 6. One Shepherd, One Flock --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 rationales that Spanish jurists and theologians developed in the Mediterranean and in the Americas.He limns the ways in which Spaniards conceived of these two theatres of imperial ambition as complementary parts of a whole. At precisely the moment that Spain was establishing its first colonies in the Caribbean, the Crown directed a series of Old World conquests that encompassed the Kingdom of Naples, Navarre, and a string of presidios along the coast of North Africa. Projected conquests in the eastern Mediterranean never took place, but the Crown seriously contemplated assaults on Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Palestine. The Other Side of Empire elucidates the relationship between the legal doctrines on which Spain based its expansionary claims in the Old World and the New.The Other Side of Empire vastly expands our understanding of the ways in which Spaniards, at the dawn of the early modern era, thought about religious and ethnic difference, and how this informed political thought on just war and empire. While focusing on imperial projects in the Mediterranean, it simultaneously presents a novel contextual background for understanding the origins of European colonialism in the Americas UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501740145?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501740145 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501740145/original ER -