An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indies, with related texts

Name: An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indies, with related texts
Author: Bartolomé de las Casas, Franklin W. Knight, Andrew Hurley

by Bartolomé de las Casas, Franklin W. Knight, Andrew Hurley · 2002

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First Latin translation and first illustrated edition of Las Casas' Brevissima relación and three other tracts, with the series of 17 plates illustrating the cruelties practised upon the Indians by the Spaniards, as related by Las Casas.

ColoniesTreatment of IndiansHistoryAmerican history: c 1500 to c 1800Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuriesc 1500 to c 1600AmericaMexicoHistory: WorldWest IndiesIndians, Treatment ofConquest, 1519-1540