Well, the truth be told, all those post-modern conquistadores might want to put Mr. Kamen's book aside and settled down for an evening of reading Bartolome de Las Casas, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST INDIES in order to get a contemporary Spaniard's take on "Spain's glorious and epic making empire building" in the "New World"! Mr. Kamen's book is child's play next to Las Casas' eyewitness accounts of the brutal and vicious enslavement and slaughter of the Caribbean island peoples, and those of Central and South America. Don't read Las Casas before going to sleep!
by Thomas on April 12, 2003 at 10:11 AM