<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.

Abstract

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.