by Bartolomé de las Casas · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437603414
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«Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias» is the chronicle by Bartolomé de las Casas, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (186 pages).
Written in 1552, it denounces the atrocities committed by the Spanish conquistadors against the indigenous peoples of the Americas. A controversial work by Bartolomé de las Casas, it has been used both as testimony to colonial barbarism and to question colonization, and constitutes a humanitarian protest against injustice.
This edition, edited by André Saint-Lu, is number 158 in the Letras Hispánicas collection from Ediciones Cátedra; text in Spanish.
Recommended for readers of history, scholars of colonial America and those seeking the Spanish classics on the conquest of the Indies.
Bartolomé de las Casas, OP ; 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish lawyer, clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar. He was appointed as the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the Caribbean islands. He described and railed against the atrocities committed by the conquistadores against the Indigenous peoples.
