- Paperback: 129 pages
- Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company; New edition edition (November 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0872206254
- ISBN-13: 978-0872206250
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
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Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolome de las Casas dedicated his Brevisima Relacion de la Destruicion de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevisima Relacion catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king's colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonisation of it. Andrew Hurley's daring new translation dramatically foreshortens that 500 years by reversing the usual priority of a translation; rather than bring the Brevisima Relacion to the reader, it brings the reader to the Brevisima Relacion -- not as it is, but as it might have been, had it been originally written in English. The translator thus allows himself no words or devices unavailable in English by 1560, and in so doing reveals the prophetic voice, urgency and clarity of the work, qualities often obscured in modern translations. An Introduction by Franklin Knight, notes, a map, and a judicious set of Related Readings offer further aids to a fresh appreciation of this foundational historical and literary work of the New World and European engagement with it.
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All the things that have taken place in the Indies, both since their marvellous discovery and those first years when Spaniards first went out to them to remain for some time, and then in the process thereafter down to these our own days, have been so extraordinary and so in no wise to be believed by any person who did not see them, that they seem to have clouded and laid silence and oblivion upon all those other deeds, however bold and dauntless they might be, that in centuries past were ever seen and heard in this world. Read the first page
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All the things that have taken place in the Indies, both since their marvellous discovery and those first years when Spaniards first went out to them to remain for some time, and then in the process thereafter down to these our own days, have been so extraordinary and so in no wise to be believed by any person who did not see them, that they seem to have clouded and laid silence and oblivion upon all those other deeds, however bold and dauntless they might be, that in centuries past were ever seen and heard in this world. Read the first page
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Disturbing, May 21 2009
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This review is from: An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies (Paperback)
I thought I knew what I was getting into, but even though I'd braced myself the carnage and sick behavior described was hard to bear. The translation is excellent and very apt: by keeping the language in its period there is more of a connection, somehow. The evil that man can exhibit is very clearly and urgently communicated by Las Casas. It makes one wonder about our species, and naturally one is led to think about more recent horrors that we have committed against each other. Yes, gold drove the Spanish insane and made their monstrous evil come out in all its true intensity, but the same evil lurks in all humans everywhere, and the thin membrane of civilization that covers it is all too easily torn away. The events that he witnessed could happen here tomorrow. A chilling account that more people should be aware of.
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A must read., May 4 2011
By Vicious Cesar! "Real Life Villain" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies (Paperback)
Your school history books and the media do their best to reenforce the narrative that the ruling class wants us to believe. So take it upon yourself to become educated and informed on the realities behind the creation of the 'new world'. And, there's no better place to start than with De Las Casas' writings on the genocide and inhumane acts committed on the people who called this their home prior to the arrival of the European terrorist.
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