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von Bartolome de Las Casas (Autor), Anthony Pagden (Einleitung), Nigel Griffin (Übersetzer) "Everything that has happened since the marvellous discovery of the Americas - from the short-lived initial attempts of the Spanish to settle there, right down..." (mehr)
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  • Taschenbuch: 192 Seiten
  • Verlag: Penguin Classics (3. November 1992)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0140445625
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140445626
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,7 x 1,5 cm
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Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus' voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. Dedicated to Philip II to alert the Castilian Crown to these atrocities and demand that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind, this passionate work of documentary vividness outraged Europe and contributed to the idea of the Spanish 'Black Legend' that would last for centuries.

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Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus' voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. Dedicated to Philip II to alert the Castilian Crown to these atrocities and demand that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind, this passionate work of documentary vividness outraged Europe and contributed to the idea of the Spanish 'Black Legend' that would last for centuries.
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Everything that has happened since the marvellous discovery of the Americas - from the short-lived initial attempts of the Spanish to settle there, right down to the present day - has been so extraordinary that the whole story remains quite incredible to anyone who has not experienced it at first hand. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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2.0 von 5 Sternen The genesis of the "Black Legend" of Spain, 6. Oktober 1998
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Interesting from a historical perspective, Fray de las Casas gives us the first look at the "uniquely cruel" Spanish stereotype that has been dubbed by historians as "The Black Legend." We can still see evidence of said legend in modern literature and movies. The book is the source of the oft-quoted figure of 20 million Native-Americans killed by conquistadors, including 3 million on Hispaniola (modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic) alone. Most modern historians agree that the island could have only supported a small fraction of that population. Extremely interesting book from the perspective of studying the history of public relations. This book was extensively used by the Dutch during their struggle for independence from Spain, being published in both Holland and England as a rallying point against, as one subtitle of the book put it "the Bloudy and Popish nation of the Spaniards."
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5.0 von 5 Sternen the truth can be painful, 13. Juli 2000
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While De Las Casas may have had limited means for determining the indigenous population at the time of the arrival of Columbus, and though his book was indeed used by other European nations to cast the Spaniards in a bad light, there is ample evidence in this book and elsewhere of the unrelenting cruelty which was unleashed by Columbus and those who followed in his footsteps.

There is sufficient clarity and consistency in the writing of De Las Casas to clear up any lingering doubts one might have about the behavior of the conquistadoras. And one can ponder whether humanity can learn from this particularly dark page of history so long as the truth is painted over by continuing to celebrate the dominant story of heroism and adventure.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen a detailed account of European barbarism, 1. Juni 2000
Bartolome De Las casas has provided contemporary historians and ethnographers (such as Francis Jennings, Jared Diamond or David E. Stannard) with a detailed account of the atrocities committed by Columbus in Hispaniola. Las Casas' account is not only detailed, it is a horific and terrifying tale of the conquest and subjugation of a lovable, tractable, peaceable, gentle, decorous people.

According to Las Casas, Hispaniola was "perhaps the most densely populated place in the world," "a beehive of people," who "of all the infinite universe of humanity, ...are the most guileless, the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity." Driven by "insatiable greed and ambition," the Spanish fell upon them "like ravening wild beasts, ... killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples" with "the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never seen or heard of before, and to such a degree" that the population is barely 200 persons, he wrote in 1552, "from my own knowledge of the acts I witnessed." "It was a general rule among Spaniards to be cruel," he wrote: "not just cruel, but extraordinarily cruel so that harsh and bitter treatment would prevent Indians from daring to think of themselves as human beings." "As they saw themselves each day perishing by the cruel and inhuman treatment of the Spaniards, crushed to the earth by the horses, cut in pieces by swords, eaten and torn by dogs, many buried alive and suffering all kinds of exquisite tortures, ...[they] decided to abandon themselves to their unhappy fate with no further struggles, placing themselves in the hands of their enemies that they might do with them as they liked."

The leading chronicler of Spanish barbarity in the New World, Las Casas wrote near end of his life: "I believe that because of these impious, criminal and ignominious deeds perpetrated so unjustly, tyrannically and barbarously, God will vent upon Spain His wrath and His fury, for nearly all of Spain has shared in the bloody wealth usurped at the cost of so much ruin and slaughter."

"Short Account Destruction W Indies" is a must-read for those historians suffering from the same amnesia-like affliction as David Irving: that the wholesale slaughter of the Native population of the Western Hemisphere is somehow a historical untruth and is somehow not borne out by the historical facts. Las Casas elegantly provides the facts needed to refute that argument.

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Fifty years after Columbus found this world, a friar had witnessed himself and heard from others about the true nature of the conquest. Lesen Sie weiter...
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