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History of the Indies. Translated and edited by Andr ee Collard.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Spanish Series: European perspectives | Harper torchbooks ; TB1540 | European perspectives | Harper torchbooks ; 1540. | TitlePublication details: New York, Harper & Row [1971]Description: xxvi, 302 pages 21 cm; xxvi, 302p. 22cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0061315400
  • 9780061315404
  • ISBN 06-131540-0
Uniform titles:
  • Historia de las Indias. Selections. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: History of the Indies.DDC classification:
  • 972.9, Cas
  • 972.9, WI Cas
Contents:
This book is an epoch-making and controversial work. Not only does it give a lengthy and well-documented account of the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World from 1492 to 1520, it also contains the first sustained criticism of the conquest, and in relating historical events, it raises much larger questions: the moral issues of war, slavery, human rights and the mission of secular government. -- from Back Cover.
Action note:
  • 060297 Charm
  • 20050215 sct
Summary: This book is an epoch-making and controversial work. Not only does it give a lengthy and well-documented account of the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World from 1492 to 1520, it also contains the first sustained criticism of the conquest, and in relating historical events, it raises much larger questions: the moral issues of war, slavery, human rights and the mission of secular government. -- from Back Cover.
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Translation of: Historia de las Indias, with some omissions.

Selected bibliography, p. 293

Selected bibliography, p. 293

Includes bibliographical references (page 293).

This book is an epoch-making and controversial work. Not only does it give a lengthy and well-documented account of the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World from 1492 to 1520, it also contains the first sustained criticism of the conquest, and in relating historical events, it raises much larger questions: the moral issues of war, slavery, human rights and the mission of secular government. -- from Back Cover.

This book is an epoch-making and controversial work. Not only does it give a lengthy and well-documented account of the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World from 1492 to 1520, it also contains the first sustained criticism of the conquest, and in relating historical events, it raises much larger questions: the moral issues of war, slavery, human rights and the mission of secular government. -- from Back Cover.

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