A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de las Casas
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2022-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1504078586

A Spanish friar documents the brutal treatment of Caribbean natives at the hands of colonial authorities in the sixteenth century. After traveling to the New World, Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas witnessed conquistadors wreak unimaginable horrors upon the Indigenous people of the Caribbean. He later dedicated his life to fighting for their protection. Following numerous failed attempts to reason with authorities in Spain, he chose to document everything he had seen over a span of fifty years and to give it to Spain’s Prince Philip II. In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Las Casas catalogues the atrocities he observed the Spanish colonial authorities inflict upon the native people. He discusses the brutal torture, mass genocide, and enslavement. He passionately pleas for an end to this treatment and for the native peoples to be given basic human rights.

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de las Casas
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2020-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Witness the chilling chronicle of colonial atrocities and the mistreatment of indigenous peoples in 'A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies'. Written by the compassionate Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542, this harrowing account exposes the heinous crimes committed by the Spanish in the Americas. Addressed to Prince Philip II of Spain, Las Casas' heartfelt plea for justice sheds light on the fear of divine punishment and the salvation of Native souls. From the burning of innocent people to the relentless exploitation of labor, the author unveils a brutal reality that spans across Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba.

An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies

An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé De Las Casas
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2003-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1603844945

Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevísima Relación catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king’s colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it.

The Devastation of the Indies

The Devastation of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de Las Casas
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1992-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801844300

Presents Bartolomé de Las Casas's 1552 account of the brutalities he witnessed, committed in the name of Christianity, on voyages to the Spanish colonies of the New World.

History of the Indies

History of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de las Casas
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1971
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Another Face of Empire

Another Face of Empire
Author: Daniel Castro
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822389592

The Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murder of natives by the conquistadores in reports to the Spanish royal court and in tracts such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552). For his unrelenting denunciation of the colonialists’ atrocities, Las Casas has been revered as a noble protector of the Indians and as a pioneering anti-imperialist. He has become a larger-than-life figure invoked by generations of anticolonialists in Europe and Latin America. Separating historical reality from myth, Daniel Castro provides a nuanced, revisionist assessment of the friar’s career, writings, and political activities. Castro argues that Las Casas was very much an imperialist. Intent on converting the Indians to Christianity, the religion of the colonizers, Las Casas simply offered the natives another face of empire: a paternalistic, ecclesiastical imperialism. Castro contends that while the friar was a skilled political manipulator, influential at what was arguably the world’s most powerful sixteenth-century imperial court, his advocacy on behalf of the natives had little impact on their lives. Analyzing Las Casas’s extensive writings, Castro points out that in his many years in the Americas, Las Casas spent very little time among the indigenous people he professed to love, and he made virtually no effort to learn their languages. He saw himself as an emissary from a superior culture with a divine mandate to impose a set of ideas and beliefs on the colonized. He differed from his compatriots primarily in his antipathy to violence as the means for achieving conversion.

A Short Account of the Destruction of the West Indies (Graphyco Annotated Edition)

A Short Account of the Destruction of the West Indies (Graphyco Annotated Edition)
Author: Bartolomé Casas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2020-07-29
Genre:
ISBN:

"God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten." A Short Account of the Destruction of the West Indies is an account written by about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Bartolomé de las Casas (1544-1550) was a 16th-century Spanish friar, priest, landowner and bishop who is famed as an historian and social reformer.

The History of the Indies of New Spain

The History of the Indies of New Spain
Author: Diego Durán
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 730
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806126494

An unabridged translation of a 16th century Dominican friar's history of the Aztec world before the Spanish conquest, based on a now-lost Nahuatl chronicle and interviews with Aztec informants. Duran traces the history of the Aztecs from their mythic origins to the destruction of the empire, and describes the court life of the elite, the common people, and life in times of flood, drought, and war. Includes an introduction and annotations providing background on recent studies of colonial Mexico, and 62 b&w illustrations from the original manuscript. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination

Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination
Author: Anthony Pagden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300076608

From the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Spain was regarded as a unique social and political community--the most exalted, the most feared, the most despised, and the most discussed since the Roman Empire. In this important book, Anthony Pagden offers an incisive analysis of the lasting influence of the Spanish Empire in the history of early modern Europe and of its place in the European and SpanishAmerican political imagination.