Descripcion de las costumbres aborigenes de Mexico.
Basta esta cita para comprender la idea del buen gobierno de los Incas descrita por Bartolome de las Casas: Consideraba en esta visita de la tierra, si se podia hacer alguna semilla o arboles y frutales que no fructificaban, o no tanto, en otras partes, y era necesaria, y traia de otra tierra hombre[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolome de las Casas dedicated his Brevisima Relacion de la Destruicion de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West [...]
This is the first major English-language and scholarly biography of Bartolome de Las Casas' life in a generation.[...]
Bartolome de Las Casas's critical account of the impact that the Spaniards had on the new continent has long been recognized as one of the major sources for the study on the interaction between whites and American Indians during the sixteenth century. The present translation of The Devastation of th[...]