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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
List Price: $14.00 Our Price: $9.54 (As of Jun 18, 05:41 PM) Ships FREE from Amazon.com on orders over $25 (details)  Edition: Paperback Other editions available: Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback 207 third-party copies available from: $0.15 (As of Jun 18, 05:41 PM) 
Other items of interest: • The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics) • The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics) • Day of Revenge • Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World • The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History & Culture)  Product Description: Bartolome 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' 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. Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Bartolome de Las Casas Creators: Nigel Griffin (Translator) Anthony Pagden (Introduction) Recording label: Penguin Classics Publishers: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics EAN: 9780140445626 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0140445625 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 192 Publication date: 1999-09-08 Release date: 1992-11-03 Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) Data cached: Jun 18, 2013 05:41 PM (GMT -8 hours) |
