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An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies: And Related Texts » (1st Edition)
Authors: ide Las Casas, Franklin W. Knight (Editor), Andrew Hurley
ISBN-13: 9780872206250, ISBN-10: 0872206254
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: ide Las Casas
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| The Indies in Las Casas' Time | ||
| Introduction | ||
| A Note on the Text and the Translation | ||
| Some Earlier English Translations of Bartolome de las Casas': Brevisima relacion de la destruicion de las Indias | ||
| An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies | 1 | |
| Argument of the Present Epitome | 1 | |
| Presentation | 2 | |
| [An Introduction to the Relation] | 4 | |
| On the Island Hispaniola | 8 | |
| On the Kingdoms That Once Were to Be Found upon the Island of Hispaniola | 12 | |
| On the Two Islands of San Juan and Jamaica | 17 | |
| On the Island of Cuba | 18 | |
| On Terra Firma | 21 | |
| On the Province of Nicaragua | 25 | |
| On New Spain, I | 28 | |
| On New Spain, II | 30 | |
| On the Province and Kingdom of Guatimala | 38 | |
| Of New Spain and Panuco and Jalisco | 43 | |
| On the Kingdom of Yucatan | 47 | |
| On the Province of Santa Marta | 54 | |
| On the Province of Cartagena | 57 | |
| On the Coast of Pearls and on Paria and the Island of Trinidad | 57 | |
| Of the River Yuyapari | 64 | |
| On the Kingdom of Venezuela | 64 | |
| On the Province of Terra Firma in the Part Called Florida | 69 | |
| On the Rio de la Plata, or the River of Plate | 71 | |
| On the Great Kingdoms and Great Provinces of Peru | 72 | |
| On the New Kingdom of Granada | 78 | |
| Testament | 86 | |
| The Laws of Burgos (1512-1513) | 89 | |
| New Laws of the Indies | 93 | |
| A Treatise on the Just Causes for War against the Indians | 103 | |
| The True History of the Conquest of Mexico | 107 | |
| From Hernan Cortes, Cartas de relacion | 111 | |
| Table of Weights and Measures Used in the Text | 121 | |
| Glossary of Political and Military Terms Used in the Text | 123 | |
| Index | 127 |
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