Latin American Literary Review (Oct 2023)

<em>The Business of Conquest. Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World</em>, by Nicole D. Legnani. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. 282 p.

  • Christian Elguera

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26824/lalr.412
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 50, no. 101

Abstract

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In The Business of Conquest, Nicole Legnani outlines the links and contradictions between caritas (Christian love) and cupiditas (the desire for things) during the Imperial Spanish dominion. Legnani wants to show how the Spanish Empire advocated its monetary objectives through Catholic discourses.

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