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For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Bartolome de las Casas was born in Seville around 1484. At the age of eighteen he left for the New World, where he participated in the conquest of Cuba and witnessed the first full-scale massacre of an Indian community. He became a priest and entered the Dominican order. He dedicated himself to the protection and defence of the Indians.
Anthony Pagden teaches in the Department of History at John Hopkins University, Baltimore. He is the author of The Fall of Natural Man and Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination.
Nigel Griffin read modern languages at Oxford and was a Fellow of New College in the 1970s. He now concentrates on writing and translating and has worked for both the UN and the World Bank.
Map of America (1540)
Introduction
A Note on Editions and on this Translation
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Synopis
Prologue
(Preface)
Hispaniola
The Kingdoms of Hispaniola
The Islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica
Cuba
The Mainland
The Province of Nicaragua
New Spain
New Spain (continued)
The Province and Kingdom of Guatemala
New Spain, Pánuco and Jalisco
The Kingdom of Yucatán
The Province of Santa Marta
The Province of Cartagena
The Pearl Coast, Paria and Trinidad
The River Yuyapari
The Kingdom of Venezuela
The Mainland in the Region Known as Florida
The River Plate
The Great Kingdoms and Provinces of Peru
The Kingdom of New Granada
(Conclusion)
Index
Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 1992 |
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Jahrhundert: | Neuzeit |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780140445626 |
ISBN-10: | 0140445625 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Las Casas, Bartolome |
Redaktion: | Nigel Griffin |
Übersetzung: | Nigel Griffin |
Hersteller: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
Maße: | 198 x 130 x 12 mm |
Von/Mit: | Bartolome Las Casas |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.06.1992 |
Gewicht: | 0,141 kg |
Bartolome de las Casas was born in Seville around 1484. At the age of eighteen he left for the New World, where he participated in the conquest of Cuba and witnessed the first full-scale massacre of an Indian community. He became a priest and entered the Dominican order. He dedicated himself to the protection and defence of the Indians.
Anthony Pagden teaches in the Department of History at John Hopkins University, Baltimore. He is the author of The Fall of Natural Man and Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination.
Nigel Griffin read modern languages at Oxford and was a Fellow of New College in the 1970s. He now concentrates on writing and translating and has worked for both the UN and the World Bank.
Map of America (1540)
Introduction
A Note on Editions and on this Translation
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Synopis
Prologue
(Preface)
Hispaniola
The Kingdoms of Hispaniola
The Islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica
Cuba
The Mainland
The Province of Nicaragua
New Spain
New Spain (continued)
The Province and Kingdom of Guatemala
New Spain, Pánuco and Jalisco
The Kingdom of Yucatán
The Province of Santa Marta
The Province of Cartagena
The Pearl Coast, Paria and Trinidad
The River Yuyapari
The Kingdom of Venezuela
The Mainland in the Region Known as Florida
The River Plate
The Great Kingdoms and Provinces of Peru
The Kingdom of New Granada
(Conclusion)
Index
Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
---|---|
Erscheinungsjahr: | 1992 |
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Jahrhundert: | Neuzeit |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780140445626 |
ISBN-10: | 0140445625 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Las Casas, Bartolome |
Redaktion: | Nigel Griffin |
Übersetzung: | Nigel Griffin |
Hersteller: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
Maße: | 198 x 130 x 12 mm |
Von/Mit: | Bartolome Las Casas |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.06.1992 |
Gewicht: | 0,141 kg |