An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, and Related Texts
Contributors: Andrew Hurley (Editor); Bartolome de Las Casas (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780872206267
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1500 to c 1600; History: World; Colonies; Spain; West Indies; Indians, Treatment of; America; Conquest, 1519-1540; History; Latin America; Mexico
First sentence: All the things that have taken place in the Indies, both since their marvellous discovery and those first years when Spaniards first went out to them to remain for some time, and then in the process thereafter down to these our own days, have been so extraordinary and so in no wise to be believed by any person who did not see them, that they seem to have clouded and laid silence and oblivion upon all those other deeds, however bold and dauntless they might be, that in centuries past were ever seen and heard in this world.