Sepúlveda on the Spanish invasion of the Americas : defending empire, debating Las Casas / edited and translated by Luke Glanville, Associate Professor of International Relations, Australian National University , David Lupher, Professor of Classics, Emeritus, University of Puget Sound, Maya Feile Tomes, Lorna Close Lecturer in Spanish, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de, 1490-1573, author.

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566, author.

Contributor:

Glanville, Luke, editor, translator.

Lupher, David A., 1947- editor, translator.

Feile Tomes, Maya, editor, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

History and theory of international law

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de, 1490-1573--Translations into English.

Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de.

Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de, 1490-1573.

Indians, Treatment of--Latin America--History--16th century.

Indians, Treatment of.

Just war doctrine.

Latin America--History--To 1600.

Latin America.

Spain--Colonies--America--History--16th century.

Spain.

Spanish colonies.

America.

Genre:

History

Translations

Physical Description:

xvi, 427 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Defending empire, debating Las Casas

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Here is an English translation of four key texts from the dispute between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the Americas, culminating in their famous debate in Valladolid in 1550-51.

Contents:

Introduction

Democrates part two, on the just reasons for the war against the Indians (Democrates secundus, sive de iustis belli causis apud Indos)

The defence of the book, on just reasons for war (Apologia pro libro de iustis belli causis)

Contained herein is a debate or disputation (Aqui se contiene una disputa o controversia)

Outrageous, scandalous, heretical notions (Proposiciones temerarias, escandalosas, y de mala doctrina)

Postscript: from valladolid to the 'black legend'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-405) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version : Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de, 1490-1573. Works. Selections. English. Sepúlveda on the Spanish invasion of the Americas.

ISBN:

0198863829

9780198863823

OCLC:

1360281385