Hackett Classics: An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies : And Related Texts (Paperback)

9780872206250. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 192. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Maps. Hackett Classics. Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolom� de Las Casas dedicated his Brev�sima Relaci�n de la Destruici�n de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brev�sima Relaci�n catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king's colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it.