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- ISBN 9780271029375
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2010
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Of great benefit for scholars and teachers, this is the first English translation and critical edition of a rare refutation of Bartolomé de las Casas’s famous 1552 Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, one of the most influential texts of the sixteenth century. The Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests, written by the Spanish soldier Bernardo de Vargas Machuca about 1603, provides valuable insights into the other side of the debate over the morality of the Spanish conquest.
Kris Lane is Professor of History at the College of William and Mary.
Timothy F. Johnson is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Department of Spanish at the University of California, Davis.
