Bartolomé de las Casas : a biography /

Bartolomé de las Casas : a biography /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Clayton, Lawrence A.
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:	viii, 498 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Casas, Bartolomé de las, -- 1484-1566. Casas, Bartolomé de las, -- 1484-1566. Dominicans -- Spain -- Biography. Dominicans -- America -- Biography. Dominicans. Explorers -- America -- Biography. Explorers -- Spain -- Biography. Indians, Treatment of. Discovery and exploration, Spanish. Explorers. Indians, Treatment of. America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish. America. Spain. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8863077

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ISBN:	9781107001213 (hbk.) 1107001218 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Seville and early modern Spain
2. To the Indies
3. The genesis of the Black Legend
4. Conversion
5. Protector of the Indians
6. 'Micer' Las Casas at court looking for good Spanish peasants
7. Las Casas, the political animal
8. Catastrophe in Tierra Firme and the 'long sleep' in Puerto Plata
9. Coming out to battle
10. The new laws
11. Bishop of Chiapas
12. The great debate
13. Court activist and historian
14. The final fights