Subject: Spain -- Colonies (Keywords)

In this work, Bartolomé de las Casas provides a fierce and moving account of the genocide practised by the Spanish colonialists.

It used to be said that the sun never set on the empire of the King of Spain. It was therefore appropriate that Emperor Charles V should have commissioned from Battista Agnese in 1543 a world map as a birthday present for his sixteen-year-old son, the future Philip II. This was the world as Charl...