Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas
After Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas is the single most important figure in the period known as the Encounter, a time of intensive conflict between Europeans and the people of the Americas following Columbus's voyages. In this book, Clayton provides a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience and acts of Las Casas. Las Casas, a Dominican friar, witnessed the brutality of the Spanish explorers early in the conquest. Motivated above all by Christian scripture, he turned on the conquistadors with a passion that made him the most prominent defender and protector of the nati…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-9272-2
- EAN: 9781444392722
- Produktnummer: 13867459
- Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'871 KB
Über den Autor
Lawrence A. Clayton is Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of History at the University of Alabama. His books include A History of Modern Latin America, second edition (2004), Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle (1999), and The De Soto Chronicles (editor, 1993). He is currently writing the first major biography of Las Casas in more than a generation.
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