CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Jay I. Kislak Foundation	The Spanish Colonie, or Briefe Chronicle of the actes and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies... London: William Brome, 1583. Detail of text
The first English translation of Las Casas - from the 1579 French edition, published in Antwerp, which was itself a translation of the 1552 Brevissima relación.

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