Castro / Mignolo / Silverblatt Another Face of Empire

Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8959-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castro, Daniel

Mignolo, Walter D.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Savior of Indoamerica? 1

1. Defining and Possessing 17

2. American Crucible 40

3. Conversions, Utopias, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism 63

4. Theory and Praxis 105

5. Toward a Restoration of the Indies 135

6. The Legacy of Las Casas 150

Conclusion 177

Notes 187

Bibliography 215

Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Castro is Associate Professor of History at Southwestern University. He is the editor of Revolution and Revolutionaries: Guerilla Movements in Latin America.