Santa Arias Libros

The work of Bartolomé de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a sixteenth-century Dominican missionary to their lives, understanding his colonial-imperial context, and negotiating the apparent contradictions among his evangelizing and his varying stances on Indian and black slavery in the New World. The

Retorica, historia y polemica is a study of Bartolome de las Casas writings, within the context of the European Renaissance intellectual tradition. The book examines the rhetoric and politics of discourse to demonstrate how the Dominican advocate of Amerindian rights subverted the relationship between Renaissance Christian humanism and New World experience, thus arriving at the