A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
$32.94
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 September 1998
Summary
A fierce and moving account of the genocide practised by the Spanish colonialists.
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 catalogu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140445626 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140445625 |
| Author: | Bartolome Las Casas, Anthony Pagden |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 3 September 1998 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
About The Author
Bartolome Las Casas
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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