Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas
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Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. : history, philosophy, and theology in the age of European expansion
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Bartolomé de Las Casas: a Biography
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Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas
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Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights
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Born in Blood and Fire : a concise history of Latin America
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Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History
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Western Expansion and Indigenous Peoples : the heritage of Las Casas
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The Devastation of the Indies
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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, Bartolomé de Las Casas, acquintance 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 Spanish colonies, Las Casas returned to Seville, where he published a book that caused a storm of controversy that persists to the present day. The Devastation of the Indies is an eyewitness account of the first modern genocid, a story of greed, hypocrisy, and cruelties so grotesque as to rival the worst of our own century. Las Casas writes of men, women and children burned alive "thirteen at a time in memoery of Our Redeemer and his twelve apostles." He describes butcher shops that sold human flesh for dog food ("Give me a quarter of that rascal there," one customer says, "until I can kill some more of my own"). Slave ship captains navigate "without need if compass or charts," following instead the trail of floating corpes tossed overboard by the ship before them. Native kings are promised peace, then slaughted. Whole families hang themselves in despair. Once-fertile islands are turned to desert, the wealth of nations plundered, millions killed outright, whole peoples annihilated. In an introduction, historian Bill M. Donovan provides a brief biography of Las Casas and reviews the controversy his work produced among Europeans, whose indignation--and denials--lasted centuries. But the book itself is short. "Were I to describe all this," writes Las Casas of the four decades of suffering he witnessed, "no amount of time and paper could emcimpass this task."
History of the Indies
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This book is an epoch-making and controversial work. Not only does it give a lengthy and well-documented account of the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World from 1492 to 1520, it also contains the first sustained criticism of the conquest, and in relating historical events, it raises much larger questions: the moral issues of war, slavery, human rights and the mission of secular government. -- from Back Cover.
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