Encounters, Rights, and Sovereignty in the Iberian empires, (15th-19th centuries)

Call for papers - University of Évora, Portugal, 24-25 May 2018 The Iberian colonization processes in Asia, Africa and the Americas involved several types of encounters between colonizers and native peoples, as well as rivalries among these and other European colonial powers. These encounters often took the shape of conflicts and confrontations, but they also often happened amidst dynamics of negotiation and accommodation. The Portuguese and the Castilian crowns both tried to regulate these e..