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SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIES [Buy it!] | CASAS BARTOLOME DE LAS.;.GRIFFIN MIGEL ED TRANS..FAGDEN ANTHONY INTRO. | USD 10.00 (Wed May 22 22:37:11 2024) | Biblio | Wonderful Books by Mail | Penguin Classics. Very Good. Date: 2004. PAPERBACK. Paperback. 7.7 X 5.0 X 0.6 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION ... clean, solid, bright; White titles on black spine strip...colorful cover art shows Spanish soldiers parading Inca civilians. ; 143+pg pages; he first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery,... . 2004. Penguin Classics ISBN 0140445625 9780140445626 [US] |