Brevï¿½Sima Relaciï¿½n de la Destruyciï¿½n de

Name: Brevï¿½Sima Relaciï¿½n de la Destruyciï¿½n de
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ISBN: 9789871136506

ISBN-10: 9871136501

ISBN-13: 9789871136506

Edition: 2006

Authors: Bartol De Las Casas, Jean-Paul Duviols

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The painful and violent testimony of cruelties incurred by the Spanish conquistadors in the new world, concisely depicted by Bartolome de Las Casas in his "Brevisima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias," is both a terrible accusation and a warning addressed at Prince Phillip of Spain. By accumulating descriptions of atrocities, slaughters and tortures, while emphasizing the deep contrast between the goodness of the natives and the evil spirit of the conquistadors, the dominic priest prophesizes apocalyptic consequences to fall upon Spain as results of the horrors perpetrated by the colonizers, driven by greed and ambition instead of the desire to evangelize and protect the "new souls."…

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List price: $26.60
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Stock Cero
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594