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5 - Bartolomé de Las Casas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2018

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Kenneth Pennington
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Rafael Domingo  and
Javier Martínez-Torrón
Rafael Domingo
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
Javier Martínez-Torrón
Affiliation:
Complutense University, Madrid
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Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History , pp. 98 - 115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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