The Conquest of Mexico

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• Columbus on Himself by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- E111.F364 2010

  ISBN: 1603841334

  Intended as an antidote to potted biographies and piecemeal reconstructions of his voyages, this volume draws on judicious selections from Christopher Columbus's own writings--chronologically arranged, and translated into idiomatic English--to relate his self-perception and personal history, as far as is possible, in his own words. The result is a full and vivid (and often surprising) portrait of this complex man and the role he thought he was destined to play as God's instrument on earth. Twenty-four illustrations, maps of Columbus's routes across the Atlantic and his travels in the West Indies, and an index further enhance this introduction to his life and discoveries.
• Journal of first voyage to America

  Call Number: UF LIBRARY WEST General Collection -- E118.C717
• The Log of Christopher Columbus

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- E118.C725 1987 ; UF MAP and IMAGERY LIBRARY General Collection -- E118.C725 1987

  ISBN: 0877429510

  A selection of essays, pamphlets, speeches, and letters to newspapers written between 1760 and 1805 by American political and religious leaders that illuminate the founding of the republic.
• Letters of Christopher Columbus, describing his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere : together with the chapter in Bernaldez said to give the original Spanish version of the same : texts and translations.

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Special Coll Rare Books (Non-Circulating) -- 973.15C718l 1865 Oversize
• Four voyages to the New World; : letters and selected documents.

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- E114.M24 1961
• The book of prophecies

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- E117.L53 1996
• The voyage of Christopher Columbus : Columbus's own journal of discovery newly restored and translated by John Cummins.

  Call Number: UF LIBRARY WEST General Collection -- E118 .C725 1992

  Publication Date: 1992

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557)

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• Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-In 

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• The tears of the Indians; being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people: committed by the Spaniards in the islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, etc; as also in the Continent of Mexi 

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• Popery and slavery display'd : Containing the character of popery, and a relation of popish cruelties, ... With a description of the Spanish Inquisition; ... addressed to all protestant subjects; ... 

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• The Spanish Colonie, or Briefe Chronicle or the Acts and Gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- F1411.C422 1977
• An Account Of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America...to which is added, The Art of Travelling...

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America Rare Books (Request in Special Coll.) -- 972.9C335rE
• The Devastation of the Indies by Bartolomé De Las Casas; Herma Briffault (Translator); Bill Donovan (Introduction by)

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- F1411.C43 1992

  ISBN: 9780801844300

  "One of the major sources for the study on the interraction between whites and American Indians during the sixteenth century." -- Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
• In Defense of the Indians by Bartolomé De Las Casas; Stafford Poole (Translator); Martin E. Marty (Introduction by)

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- F1411.C425 1992

   This carefully reasoned but emotionally charged defense addresses issues such as the concept of a just war, the relationships between differing races and cultures, the concept of colonialism, and the problem of racism. Written toward the end of an active career as "Protector of the Indians," the work stands as a summary of the teaching of Las Casas's life. 
• History of the Indies

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- F1411.C4275 1971b
• The tears of the Indians : being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres ...

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America Dewey (Request at Circ. Desk) -- 973.16C335Fp
• In Defense of the Indians by Stafford Poole (Editor)

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America Dewey (Request at Circ. Desk) -- 970.5C335d, 1974
• Bartolomé de las Casas; a selection of his writings.

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- F1411.C4273 1971
• Indian Freedom by Frances P. Sullivan (Translator)

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- F1411.C47645213 1995

  ISBN: 9781556127175

  Publication Date: 1995-02-01

  Intended for classroom use, work contains 47 pages from Las Casas' life of Columbus plus 24 other selections--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
• An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de Las Casas; Andrew Hurley (Translator); Franklin W. Knight (Editor, Introduction by)

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- F1411.C31513 2003

  ISBN: 0872206254

  Publication Date: 2003
• Las Casas on Columbus : the third voyage by Casas, Bartolomé de las 1474-1566

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- E111 .C383 2001

  Publication Date: 2001
• Witness : writings of Bartolomé de las Casas edited and translated by George Sanderlin ; with a foreword by Gustavo Gutiérrez by Casas, Bartolomé de las 1484-1566

  Call Number: UF SMATHERS, Latin America General Collection -- F1411 .C4273 1992

  Publication Date: 1992

Martín Fernández de Enciso (1469- ca. 1530)

A briefe description of the portes, creekes, bayes, and hauens, of the Weast India: translated out of the Castlin tongue by I.F. The originall whereof was directed to the mightie Prince Don Charles, King of Castile, &c.  

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