Bartolomé de Las Casas: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Lewis Hanke, Bartolomé de Las Casas: An Interpretation of His Life and Writings (1951), Bartolomé de Las Casas: Bookman, Scholar & Propagandist (1952), Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historian: An Essay in Spanish Historiography (1952), and Aristotle and the American Indians: A Study in Race Prejudice in the Modern World (1959, reissued 1970), provide a comprehensive survey of Las Casas’s life and work.

Other studies include Arthur Helps, The Life of Las Casas, “the Apostle of the Indies,” 2nd ed. (1868, reissued 1980); Henry Raup Wagner and Helen Rand Parish, The Life and Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas (1967); Juan Friede and Benjamin Keen (eds.), Bartolomé de Las Casas in History: Toward an Understanding of the Man and His Work (1971, reissued 2008); Helen Rand Parish, Las Casas as a Bishop (1980); Paul S. Vickery, Bartolomé de Las Casas: Great Prophet of the Americas (2006); Daniel Castro, Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism (2007); and Lawrence A. Clayton, Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas (2011), and Bartolomé de Las Casas: A Biography (2012).

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Add new Web site: Eastern Illinois University - Christ and the Conquest: Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Clerical Resistance to Spanish Colonialism. Nov 25, 2024
Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Providence College - Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566): A Brevísima Biographical Sketch. Sep 17, 2024
Anniversary information added. Jun 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Bartolome De Las Casas (1484 – 1566). Jun 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Annenberg Learner - Bartolomé de las Casas (c. 1474-1566). Mar 21, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Columbia University - The Core Curriculum - Bartolomé de Las Casas. Nov 21, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - Bartolomé de las Casas. Sep 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Catholic Online - Bartolomé de las Casas. May 29, 2023
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Bartolomé de Las Casas. Feb 26, 2023
Add new Web site: The Ohio State University - Origins - Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice. Jul 19, 2022
Corrected display issue. Jan 04, 2021
Top Questions updated. Sep 05, 2019
Corrected spelling of Tuzulutlan. Aug 15, 2017
Date of birth changed from "August 1474" to "1474 or 1484"; date of death changed from "July 17, 1566" to "July 1566." Dec 04, 2015
Article revised. Aug 19, 2015
Bibliography revised and updated. Aug 19, 2015
Add new Web site: The Mariners' Museum - Exploration through the Ages - Biography of Bartolomé de las Casas. Jun 06, 2014
Add new Web site: U-S-History.com - Bartolomé de Las Casas. Aug 06, 2013
Add new Web site: Oregon State University - Biography of Bartoleme de las Casas. Aug 06, 2013
Add new Web site: Swarthmore College - Biography of Bartoleme de Las Casas. Aug 06, 2013
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Bartolomé de Las Casas. Aug 05, 2013
Article revised and updated. Mar 26, 2007
Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Bartolome de las Casas. Feb 20, 2007
Article revised. Jun 21, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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