The Spanish Polemic on Colonisation
Part two: Bartolomé de Las Casas as colonial reformer
NOTES
(1) T. J. Brown, cited by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín: The Kings Depart, p. 1.
(2) Conor O’Mahony: An Argument Defending the Right of the Kingdom of Ireland, p. 203.
(3) Giraldus Cambrensis: The Topography of Ireland, p. 4.
(4) Ibid., p. 69. Subsequent quotations from Gerald will be found on pp. 70-79.
(5) Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa: History of the Incas, p. 38.
(6) Ibid.
(7) Ibid., pp. 163-4.
(8) Ibid., p. 173.
(9) Kolumbus: Der erste Brief aus der Neuen Welt.
(10) Account of Columbus establishing the encomienda in Lewis Hanke: The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America, pp. 19-20.
(11) Cited by Miguel Gimenez Fernandez: Bartolomé de las Casas Vol. 2, p. 703.
(12) Ibid.
(13) Biography of Las Casas: Miguel Gimenez Fernandez in B. Keen and J. Friede (eds.): Bartolomé de Las Casas in History and Lawrence A. Clayton: Bartolomé de Las Casas: A Biography.
(14) Hanke: The Spanish Struggle for Justice, p. 20.
(15) Analysis of the encomenderos - J. H. Elliott in L. Bethell (ed): The Cambridge History of Latin America Vol. 1, pp. 189-90.
(16) Lewis Hanke: The First Social Experiments in America, pp. 36-7.
(17) Hanke: The Spanish Struggle for Justice, p. 17.
(18) Ibid., p. 23.
(19) Hanke: The First Social Experiments. pp. 28-9.
(20) Ibid., p. 31.
(21) Ibid., p. 33.
(22) Miguel Leon-Portilla (ed.): Visión de los vencidos. Relaciones indigenas de la conquista, p. 62.
(23) In his edition of Bartolomé de Las Casas: Del único modo de atraer a todos los pueblos a la verdadera religión, pp. 28-29.