Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. Dedicated to Philip II to alert the Castilian Crown to these atrocities and demand that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind, this passionate work of documentary vividness outraged Europe and contributed to the idea of the Spanish 'Black Legend' that would last for centuries.

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Utgivningsdatum:1992-06-25
Mått:130 x 200 x 15 mm
Vikt:120 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9780140445626
Översättare:Nigel Griffin

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Bartolome de las Casas was born in Seville around 1484. At the age of eighteen he left for the New World, where he participated in the conquest of Cuba and witnessed the first full-scale massacre of an Indian community. He became a priest and entered the Dominican order. He dedicated himself to the protection and defence of the Indians.Anthony Pagden teaches in the Department of History at John Hopkins University, Baltimore. He is the author of The Fall of Natural Man and Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination.Nigel Griffin read modern languages at Oxford and was a Fellow of New College in the 1970s. He now concentrates on writing and translating and has worked for both the UN and the World Bank.

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A Short Account of the Destruction of the IndiesAcknowledgementsMap of America (1540)IntroductionA Note on Editions and on this TranslationA Short Account of the Destruction of the IndiesSynopisPrologue(Preface)HispaniolaThe Kingdoms of HispaniolaThe Islands of Puerto Rico and JamaicaCubaThe MainlandThe Province of NicaraguaNew SpainNew Spain (continued)The Province and Kingdom of GuatemalaNew Spain, Pánuco and JaliscoThe Kingdom of YucatánThe Province of Santa MartaThe Province of CartagenaThe Pearl Coast, Paria and TrinidadThe River YuyapariThe Kingdom of VenezuelaThe Mainland in the Region Known as FloridaThe River PlateThe Great Kingdoms and Provinces of PeruThe Kingdom of New Granada(Conclusion)Index