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Arguing that Spain sought to bring its New World lands and peoples under its control in a just and considerate way, the author examines Spain's efforts in the 16th century to tackle the legal and moral questions raised by the meeting of Europeans and American native peoples.
This works includes topics such as the transit of civilization, relations between Indians and Spaniards, population questions, the crisis of 17th-century Brazil, the development of society, the introduction of African slavery in Spanish America and crisis and climax in the 18th century.
Sixteen articles discussing the thesis first proposed by Herbert E. Bolton in his famous address of 1932, "The Epic of Greater America."