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The global expansion of European colonization is commonly perceived
as lawful according to the valid European colonial law of the time.
This book is substantially challenging this belief by uncovering
its legal justifications based on discovery and terra nullius as
retrospectively created legal fictions and demonstrating its
untenability in practice. Focused on the critical reconstruction of
Spanish and Dutch colonization practices in northeastern South
America, Trinidad and Tobago between 1498 and 1817, the book offers
an illuminating view on the European shadow of the colonial past in
the Americas. Based on the application of an innovative comparative
spatio-legal Global History approach to 1,770 excavated European
colonial written sources from archives of both sides of the
Atlantic in comparison to the colonial legal provisions of Europes
most influential legal writers, the book, moreover, provides a
substantial argument to the contemporary Caribbean-European
reparation debate in favor of the return of Indigenous Peoples
historical territories. Therefore, the book calls for the extension
of the traditional territory approach to reparations of the United
Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIPs)
and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
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