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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 Essays: A Selection

Michel de Montaigne - Philosophy - 1994 - 484 pages
A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the ...
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Letters from Mexico

Hernan Cortes, Hernán Cortés - History - 2001 - 647 pages
Written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, Hernan Cortes's letters provide a narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of ...
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Casa-grande E Senzala

Gilberto Freyre - History - 1986 - 676 pages
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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 Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521

Bernal Díaz del Castillo - Mexico - 2005 - 654 pages
Four eye-witnesses of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards have left written records, but of these the present volume and the letters of Cortés are by far the ...
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