Oviedo on Columbus [Spanish]

by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo

For Bartolome de Las Casas Columbus was the agent of God in a benign mission of evangelization but ended his career as a perpetrator of injustice against the indigenous peoples of the Antilles. A contrary image of Columbus as both the initiator of a new scientific era and agent of imperial expansion was first suggested by the author of the writings collected in this volume, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo. Oviedo was a natural historian who Humboldt states...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 2503510302
• ISBN13: 9782503510309
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.1"