A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
by Bartolome de Las Casas
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Author: Bartolome de Las CasasTranslator: Nigel Griffin
Introduction: Anthony Pagden
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-08
ISBN: 0140445625
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: A dark episode in the History of Spain and America
Summary: 5 Stars
I wanted to read this book in order to know some of the history in the conquest of america in the early years. Despite that perhaps some of the atrocities where not commited with that violence and some never happened, I think most of them are true. All this violence in the name of gold and the Inquisition.
Now, for the people who came to America, it was not an easy task. Far away from home, most of the people uneducated and indians that you cannot trust completely, the death of people was something inevitable but resulted in massacre.
A dark episode in the History of Spain and America. Finally, you realized that other colonizations were not that violent and more prosperous, it was just the "fortune" of America to receive these spaniards.
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