Bartolom de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas
by Clayton, Lawrence A.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-01-18
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This is a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience of Bartolome de las Casas, a Dominican friar who fervently defended the American Indians, and the single most important figure of the period after Columbus. Explores the period known as the Encounter, which was characterized by intensive conflict between Europeans and the people of the Americas following Columbus's voyages Argues that Las Casas, 'protector of Indians,' was primarily motivated by Scripture in his crusade for justice and equality for American Indians Draws on the 14 volume Complete Works of Las Casas as a window into his mind and actions Encourages students to understand history through the viewpoint of individuals living it
Author Biography
Lawrence A. Clayton is Professor, Department of History at the University of Alabama. His books include A History of Modern Latin America, second edition (2004), Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle (1999), and The De Soto Chronicles (editor, 1993). He is currently writing the first major biography of Las Casas in more than a generation.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. viii |
| Series Editor's Preface | p. x |
| Acknowledgments | p. xii |
| Timeline | p. xiv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Era of Columbus and the "Discoverers" | p. 10 |
| Modern interpretations | p. 20 |
| Conquest of La Española | p. 23 |
| Justice for All | p. 33 |
| Discovering his calling | p. 37 |
| Father Montesinos' sermon | p. 40 |
| Las Casas goes to Cuba | p. 45 |
| To Spain | p. 52 |
| Meeting Ferdinand | p. 54 |
| Social Experiments: The Hieronymite Mission and the Universal Protector of All the Indians | p. 61 |
| The Era of the Conquests of Mexico and Peru, 1520s-1540s | p. 87 |
| Seville, autumn, 1520 | p. 87 |
| The conquest of Mexico | p. 88 |
| The New Laws of 1542 and Bishop of Chiapa | p. 107 |
| Laying the groundwork | p. 108 |
| Bishop of Chiapa | p. 115 |
| "All Mankind is One": On the Nature of Humans, Servitude, and Slavery | p. 128 |
| Bartolomé de las Casas and the African slave trade | p. 135 |
| Conclusion | p. 151 |
| Notes | p. 154 |
| Bibliographic Essay | p. 171 |
| Index | p. 179 |
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