Bartolomé de las Casas – A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 2008 Turkish Book Turkey

Description:

Bartolomé de las Casas’s A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is a historically significant account of the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the Americas during the early Spanish colonial period. Las Casas describes the violence, exploitation, forced labor, and destruction experienced by Indigenous communities following the arrival of the Spanish.

Las Casas personally traveled to the Americas during the early period of Spanish expansion and witnessed the colonial system and its consequences. His work records events and practices that he considered deeply unjust, making the book an important historical testimony concerning the human cost of conquest and colonization.

Throughout the work, Las Casas strongly defends the dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples and condemns the violence carried out against them. His account became influential in contemporary debates about Spanish colonial practices, the treatment of Indigenous populations, and the moral and legal questions surrounding European expansion into the Americas.

This Turkish edition was published by Şule Yayınları in 2008. For collectors of historical literature, colonial history, and works documenting the encounter between Europe and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, this edition offers a Turkish presentation of one of the best-known critical accounts of the early colonial period.

Key Features:

• Author: Bartolomé de las Casas

• Original Title: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

• English Title: How the Indians Were Destroyed?

• Turkish Title: Kızılderililer Nasıl Yokedildi?

• Publisher: Şule Yayınları

• Publication Year: 2008

• Language: Turkish

• Genre: History, Historical Testimony, Colonial History, Human Rights Literature

• Subject: Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Spanish conquest, colonial violence, exploitation, forced labor, and Indigenous rights

• Historical Significance: Early critical account of the treatment of Indigenous peoples during Spanish colonization in the Americas

• Collector Appeal: Turkish edition of a historically important work documenting colonial violence and defending the rights and dignity of Indigenous peoples