Perhaps best known for its literary fiction, SMU Press is also building an
exciting list of original works and classic reprints in Southwest studies.
Most of these projects come to us from the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies at SMU. Two recent titles the collaboration has produced
are Lesley Byrd Simpson's The San Sabá Papers: A Documentary Account 
of the Founding and Destruction of San Sabá Mission and Nancy Beck 
Young's Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism,and the American Dream.

     This season, in cooperation with the Clements Center, we are reprinting
Lewis Hanke's The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of
America, a classic in the United States historiography of Latin America.
This is the first major account in English of Spain's effort in the sixteenth
century to tackle the legal and moral questions raised by the meeting of
Europeans and American native peoples.
    
     Hanke contends that, contrary to long-held stereotypical views, Spain was
not carelessly destructive in its conquests of the territories and cultures of
Middle and South America, but rather sought to bring those New World
lands and peoples under its control in a just and considered way.

     This volume features a previously unpublished personal and professional
reminiscence by the author, who was a prominent figure in Latin American
studies in the United States in the mid- twentieth century, and includes an
introduction by Susan Scafidi, assistant professor of law at SMU, and Peter
Bakewell, Edmund and Louise Kahn Professor of History at SMU. 

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Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies