English interpreters of the Iberian new world from Purchas to Stevens: A bibliographical study, 1603-1726

by Colin Steele

A study of the English translation of Spanish and Portuguese writing about the New World during the years 1603-1726. This work is especially useful for those whose scholarly work requires a detailed understanding of the seventeenth-century English texts of Las Casas or Gómara, on the one hand, and on the other those readers who will relish a bibliographic essay on the subject. The years were ones when every translator was editor, and translations were as often as not transformations. This fact alone warrants the treatment of this subject as a history of interpretation rather than a compendium of translations. Mr. Steele is a skillful historical essayist, but the bibliographic infomiation lies at the heart of the book. In one way or another fifty or sixty Spanish works found their way into English in these years. Only two or three were originally Portuguese.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Colin Steele was one of AOL's early employees. As the first hire in AOL's Systems and Advanced Technologies Group, he wrote AOL's first Internet gateway. Later, as Director of AOL Instant Messenger Host Development, he architected key components of the system, co-authored key pieces of intellectual property for it, implemented its original distributed account database, and led its development team. He has extensive knowledge of massively distributed client/server architectures, object-oriented design and programming, and network programming.