Defending empire : the "School of Salamanca" and the "Affair of the Indies"
"Making barbarians into gentle peoples" : Alberico Gentili on the legitimacy of empire
The peopling of the New World : ethnos, race and empire in the early modern world
Conquest, settlement, purchase and concession : justifying the English occupation of the Americas
Occupying the ocean : Hugo Grotius and Serafim de Freitas on the rights of discovery and occupation
Cambiar su ser : reform to revolution in the political imaginary of the Ibero-American world
From the "right of nations" to the "cosmopolitan right" : Immanuel Kant's law of continuity and the limits of empire
"Savage impulse, civilised calculation" : conquest, commerce and the Enlightenment critique of empire
Human rights, natural rights and Europe's imperial legacy.