About this title: "One of the major sources for the study on the interraction between whites and American Indians during the sixteenth century." -- Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Johns Hopkins, 1993. 138 pages. Trade paperback. Notes. Intro by Bill M. Donovan. Translated by Herma Briffault. Near Fine. Bright and tight, no spine creasing. ISBN: 0801844304 An 'eyewitness account of the first modern genocide, a story of greed, hypocrisy, and cruelties so grotesque as to rival the worst of our own century'. Published after 40 years of witnessing-and opposing-countless acts of murder and brutality against the native peoples in the Spanish colonies. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780801844300ISBN:0801844304
Description: Good. Cover and pages may have some wear or writing. Binding is tight. We ship daily Monday-Friday. Delivery Confirmation included on all domestic orders. read more
Binding: Softcover; Fifth Printing
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780801844300ISBN:0801844304
Description: VG-/NONE. 0801844304. Light rubbing and edgewear to cover, slight wrinkle at bottom of front cover, tiny bump to top of spine and top of rear cover. Small pencil notation to title page. Interior otherwise clean.; Small 8vo 7˝"-8" tall; 138 pages; History Americas, black/white, histcat tf. read more
Description: Fine. 0801844304. ABout new book, unmarked, in bright card covers with just a hint of shelflife; 138 pp including 25 page introduction by Bill Donovan. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801844300ISBN:0801844304
Description: Good. 0801844304 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801844300ISBN:0801844304
Description: Five hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever. Among the first— and most insistent— voices raised in that debate was that of a Spanish priest, Bartolome de Las Casas, acquaintance of Cortes and Pizarro and shipmate of Velasquez on the voyage to conquer Cuba. In 1552, after forty years of witnessing— and opposing— countless acts of brutality in the new ... read more
"This book stands as an incredible look into historical views of indigenous identity in the Americas. The clergyman is represented not so much as a hero, but as an embassador between the indigenous communities and the Spanish. In a time without court systems, he attempted to bargain for the just treatment of these people."
"Anyone who praises Las Casas as a hero has reached into history with an incomplete understanding of his plan to "save" the Native Americans: He believed that the solution was to bring slaves from Africa to work in place of the Native Americans, while they converted to Christianity. Is it so hard to believe that someone from 16th century Spain would have an idea like this?"
"Las Casas is one of my heros. He fought against the atrocities of the oppressive regime of the Iberian empire upon the indigenous peoples in Latin America. Since many who were in power portrayed their civilizing efforts in a positive light, Las Casas goes against this by telling the real story of subjugation of the native population."
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