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An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, with Related ...

Bartolomé de las Casas - History - 2003 - 192 pages
Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de las Casas dedicated his Brevísima ...
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The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account

Bartolomé de Las Casas - History - 1992 - 158 pages
Presents Bartolomé de Las Casas's 1552 account of the brutalities he witnessed, committed in the name of Christianity, on voyages to the Spanish colonies of the New World.
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The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America

Lewis Hanke - History - 2002 - 280 pages
Arguing that Spain sought to bring its New World lands and peoples under its control in a just and considerate way, the author examines Spain's efforts in the 16th century to ...
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The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece

Carol Dougherty - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 220 pages
Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks ...
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Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora Since 1939

Justine McConnell - History - 2013 - 324 pages
This book explores works from Africa and the African diaspora which respond to the Homeric Odyssey. As a founding text of the Western canon, and as a homecoming trope and quest ...
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