A short account of the destruction of the Indies

Author(s)

• Casas, Bartolomé de las
• Griffin, Nigel
• Pagden, Anthony

Bibliographic Information

A short account of the destruction of the Indies

Bartolomé De Las Casas ; edited and translated by Nigel Griffin, with an introduction by Anthony Pagden

（Penguin classics）

Penguin, 1992

Note

Includes index

2004 printing: "Reprinted with a chronology and further reading 2004" -- T.p. verso

2004 printing: xliv, 143 p. Further reading: p. xliii

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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'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 catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. Dedicated to Philip II to alert the Castilian Crown to these atrocities and demand that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind, this passionate work of documentary vividness outraged Europe and contributed to the idea of the Spanish 'Black Legend' that would last for centuries.

Table of Contents

A Short Account of the Destruction of the IndiesAcknowledgements Map of America (1540) Introduction A Note on Editions and on this Translation A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies Synopis Prologue (Preface) Hispaniola The Kingdoms of Hispaniola The Islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica Cuba The Mainland The Province of Nicaragua New Spain New Spain (continued) The Province and Kingdom of Guatemala New Spain, Panuco and Jalisco The Kingdom of Yucatan The Province of Santa Marta The Province of Cartagena The Pearl Coast, Paria and Trinidad The River Yuyapari The Kingdom of Venezuela The Mainland in the Region Known as Florida The River Plate The Great Kingdoms and Provinces of Peru The Kingdom of New Granada (Conclusion) Index

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Details

• NCID: BA18512174
• ISBN:
  • 9780140445626
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: spa
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xlii, 143 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 868.209
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646