La cuestión del indio: Bartolomé de las Casas frente a Ginés de Sepúlveda

This book focuses its attention on the theoretical dispute of practical consequences, both for the Spanish crown and for the corporations involved in the enterprise of conquest and evangelization of America, known as the Valladolidad controversy, which had as protagonists two characters who They embodied two different ideas about the consideration of the Indians of the New World: on the one hand, Ginés de Sepúlveda, who defended the military conquest due to the non-political nature of the Indians; while Bartolomé de las Casas defended evangelization as the basis of any endeavor to achieve civility for the natives. An exhaustive work on the aforementioned subject, based on the analysis of the arguments of both Spanish thinkers and an urgent reading for those interested in cultural and legal pluralism.