Another Face of Empire Bartolomï¿½ de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism

Name: Another Face of Empire Bartolomï¿½ de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
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ISBN: 9780822339397

ISBN-10: 0822339390

ISBN-13: 9780822339397

Edition: 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Daniel Castro

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The Spanish cleric Bartolome 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…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



About the Series


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Bartolome de Las Casas, Savior of Indoamerica?



Defining and Possessing



American Crucible



Conversions, Utopias, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism



Theory and Praxis



Toward a Restoration of the Indies



The Legacy of Las Casas


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index