![]() Gerbi, Antonello, La disputa del nuevo mundo: historia de una polémica, 1750–1800 ( Mexico-Buenos Aires, 1960 Google Scholar translation of the original 1944 Italian work), provides some additional data on Nuix and his work. Obtainable from the Library of Congress, it also omits Varela’s interesting remarks entirely. Pérez Bustamente, which disappointingly fails to add anything to what was previously available. In 19 edition was reprinted at Madrid with a cursory introduction by the historian, C. A French version was printed in 1788 at Brussels, capital of the Austrian (once Spanish) Netherlands. It is briefly discussed in the aforementioned Benito y Durán article. In 1783 a lawyer brother of the just-deceased author, Josef, published a lengthier edition at the small Catholic University of Cervera, which seems to have had no significant circulation. A copy of this 1782 version is available in the John Carter Brown Library. Payne.Ģ7 All footnotes are from this edition, which clearly was the one read widely, after the Italian original's initial, but apparently local success. Google Scholar He notes how smallpox was carried to the mainland from the islands and coasts with Cortés to Mexico and before Pizarro entered Inca lands. An impressive argument for the pre-eminence of the disease factor in the Caribbean is in Crosby, A. L., “ The Apologetic History of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas,” HAHR, 49 ( 1969), 94– 99 Google Scholar provides a superb theoretical analysis of the positions of Las Casas and Sepulveda. R., “ Colonial Silver Mining: Mexico and Peru,” HAHR, 52 ( 1972), 545–79, Google Scholar especially 557–60 offer fresh and helpful data and interpretations in a strikingly comparative way concerning labor and demography, Phelan, while J. Sauer’s comment on 203 is worth remembering: “It was not wanton brutality, however, that decimated the natives (although that existed) but a wrong and stupid system” stemming mainly from greed for gold and the repartimiento’s severe shortcomings. Clearly much of the ongoing appeal of Las Casas' interpretation of the Indians' calamity, which stressed the conquerors' brutality, comes from its foreshadowing of modern agonies over race relations and western treatment of other colonialized peoples.Ģ2 Sauer, Carl O., The Early Spanish Main ( Berkeley, Cal., 1966), especially 105f, Google Scholar 148ff, 155f, 158f, 179ff, 200ff, 203f in these respects. ![]() As this essay will suggest, eighteenth century discussants were somewhat betwixt and between concerning the American experience and the Hispanic impact. Modern research gives greater credence to mortality rates suggested by Las Casas, but centers on the dire effects of disease as the main agent causing mass death. This was no less so during the Enlightenment's passionate debates on the subject. As in the past discussion emphasized the sixteenth century, dominated by the commanding and controversial Dominican, Bartolomé de Las Casas on one hand, and the grim Indian demographic catastrophe on the other. The appearance of no less than four books in English marked 1971 as a banner year for Black Legend studies, especially for their colonial side.
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