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Defending the Conquest:

Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests
  • ISBN-13: 9780271029375
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Kris Lane, Translated by Timothy F. Johnson
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2011
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Military history [HBW]
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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).


Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction to Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests

Kris Lane

Note on the Translation

Timothy F. Johnson

Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests

Bernardo de Vargas Machuca

Translated by Timothy F. Johnson

Bibliography

Index


“While all the world has heard of Bartolomé de las Casas, the ‘Apostle of the Indians,’ few have heard of the crusty and garrulous Spanish captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, who, in a state of high indignation, set out to refute the Dominican’s depiction of the Spanish conquest of America as an unremitting chronicle of atrocities. But if we are to get a fair picture of the extraordinary events surrounding the conquest, it is important that the voices of those who took issue with Las Casas be heard. The editor and translator of Defending the Conquest have therefore performed a great service in making available to a modern readership this most politically incorrect of conquest histories. Like the gripping stories of Las Casas, those of Vargas Machuca may also have something of value to tell us.”

—Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford

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