Defending the Conquest - Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests

About the author

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.

Summary

An English translation and critical edition of a refutation, written about 1603 by the soldier Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, of Bartolome de las Casas's famous Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1558).

Product details

• Authors: Kris Lane
• Assisted by: Kris Lane (Editor), Kris (France Vinton Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History Lane (Editor), d F. Johnson (Translation), Timothy F. Johnson (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2010
• EAN: 9780271029375
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02937-5
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 286 g
• Illustrations: Karten
• Series: Latin American Originals
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; True war & combat stories, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Literature: history & criticism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Spanish Civil War, HISTORY / Europe / Spain