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Another face of empire : Bartolome de las Casas, indigenous rights, and ecclesiastical imperialism / Daniel Castro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castro, Daniel, 1945-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Latin America otherwise.
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566.
- Casas, Bartolomé de las.
- Explorers--America--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Explorers--Spain--Biography.
- Missionaries--America--Biography.
- Missionaries.
- Missionaries--Spain--Biography.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2007]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Investigates role that Las Casas played in the evolution of Spanish imperialism and 16th century arguments about human rights, and claims that scholars have overestimated the extent to which he helped indigenous people.
- Contents:
- Defining and possessing
- American crucible
- Conversions, utopias, and ecclesiastical imperialism
- Theory and praxis
- Toward a restoration of the Indies
- The legacy of Las Casas.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed July 25, 2022)
- ISBN:
- 9786613023063
- 9781283023061
- 1283023067
- 9780822389590
- 0822389592
- OCLC:
- 226067773
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