The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of ConquestOxford University Press, 1992 M11 26 - 368 pages Exploring the history of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of the West's colonized indigenous tribal peoples, Williams here traces the development of the themes that justified and impelled Spanish, English, and American conquests of the New World. |
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The Medieval and Renaissance Origins of the Status of the American Indian in Western Legal Thought | 11 |
Protestant Discourses | 119 |
The Norman Yoke The American Indian and the Settling of United States Colonizing Legal Theory | 227 |
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Page 2 - The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.