TY - BOOK ID - 101247553 TI - Bartolomé de las Casas and the defense of Amerindian rights AU - Casas, Bartolomé de las AU - Lantigua, David M AU - Clayton, Lawrence A AU - Project Muse. PY - 2020 SN - 0817392858 0817359699 9780817392857 9780817359690 PB - Tuscaloosa Baltimore, Md. DB - UniCat KW - Indians, Treatment of KW - Slavery KW - Slave trade KW - History KW - Casas, Bartolomé de las, KW - Dominicans KW - America KW - Discovery and exploration KW - Spanish KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - Indians KW - Government relations KW - Casas, Bartolomé de las KW - Las-Kasas, Bartolome de, KW - Kasas, Bartolome de las, KW - Las Casas, Bartolomé de, KW - Casaus, Bartolomé de las, KW - Las Casas, Balthazar de, KW - Casas, Balthazar de las, KW - Las Casas, B. de KW - Casas, Bartholomew las, KW - Las Casas, Bartholomew, KW - Lascasas, Bartolomé de, KW - Black Friars KW - Blackfriars KW - Dominicains KW - Dominican Fathers KW - Dominican Order KW - Dominicanen KW - Domenicani KW - Dominicanos KW - Dominicos KW - Dominics KW - Dominikanci KW - Dominikaner KW - Dominikanie KW - Dominikanski orden KW - Доминикански орден KW - Dominikant︠s︡i KW - Домініканці KW - FF. prêcheurs KW - Frati predicatori KW - Frères prêcheurs KW - Friars Preachers KW - Jacobins (Religious order) KW - O.P. KW - Orde de Predicadors KW - Orde de Sant Domènec KW - Orde dels Frares Predicadors KW - Orde dels Predicadors KW - Orde Dominicà KW - Ordem de S. Domingos KW - Ordem de São Domingos KW - Ordėn daminikanaŭ KW - Ордэн дамініканаў KW - Orden de Predicadores KW - Order of Preachers KW - Order of St. Dominic KW - Ordine dei Frati predicatori KW - Ordine dei predicatori KW - Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum KW - Ordo Praedicatorum KW - Ordre de saint Dominique KW - Ordre des Frères-Prêcheurs KW - Ordre des Prêcheurs KW - Padres Domínicos KW - Preaching Friars KW - Predicadores KW - Prediger-Orden KW - Zakon Dominikanów KW - Zakon Kaznodziejski KW - Zakon Ojców Dominikanów KW - Americas KW - New World KW - Western Hemisphere KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101247553 AB - "This is a reader devoted to the life and writings of Bartolome de las Casas (1485-1566), and the effects of his legacy on the age of the Encounter when Europeans-principally but not exclusively Spaniards-conquered the Americas. Las Casas is arguably the most important figure of the Encounter Age after Christopher Columbus, and Las Casas is well known to those who teach Western civilization, various survey histories of Spain and Latin America, and Atlantic history. He is known principally as the author of the "Black Legend," as well as the "protector" of American Indians. He was one of the pioneers of the human rights movement, and a Christian activist who invoked Biblical scripture to interpret what was right and wrong in the great age of the Encounter. He was also one of the first and most thorough chroniclers of the conquest, and a biographer who saved the diary of Columbus's first voyage for posterity through his History of the Indies, for the journal of that voyage was lost. He was also an innovator in political theory and a proto-ethnographer, and his contributions in geography, philosophy, and literature are no less significant. That he was also crusty, self-righteous, judgmental, given to gross exaggerations, and not a very loving Christian adds the very human dimension of failure to his character. This reader provides the most wide-ranging, and concise anthology of Las Casas' writings, in translation, ever made available. It contains not only excerpts from his most well-known texts, but also his writings on political philosophy and law, which are largely unavailable. Many of these selections have never been translated into English and they mostly address these under-appreciated aspects of his thought. As such, this volume presents Las Casas as a more comprehensive and systematic philosophical and legal thinker than he is given credit. The introduction puts these writings into a synthetic whole by biographically tracing his indigenous advocacy throughout his career"-- ER -