Early history of the Southwest through the eyes of German-speaking Jesuit missionaries : a transcultural experience in the eighteenth century / Albrecht Classen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Classen, Albrecht.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missionaries--Southwest, New--History--18th century--Sources.

Missionaries.

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--History--18th century--Sources.

Indians of North America.

Missionaries--Southwest, New--Biography.

Southwest, New--History--To 1848--Sources.

Southwest, New.

Southwest, New--Foreign public opinion, German--History--18th century--Sources.

Southwest, New--Foreign public opinion, Swiss--History--18th century--Sources.

Southwest, New--Ethnic relations--History--18th century--Sources.

Jesuits--Southwest, New--History--18th century--Sources.

Jesuits.

Jesuits--Europe, German-speaking--History--18th century--Sources.

Jesuits--Southwest, New--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides unique and lively, authentic, and source-based insights into the history, culture, geograpyh, fauna, flaura, geology, climate, and politics of eighteenth-century Sonora/Arizona, drawing from the fascinating first-hand accounts written by German speaking Jesuit missionaries. Transcultural experiences of extraordinary kinds dominate those accounts which allow us to understand the difficult, problematic, sometimes hostile, but then also productive and fruitful contacts, interactions, and dealings between the European missionaries and the native population.</sp

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries in the AmericanSouthwest: Global Perspectives of a Local Phenomenon in theEighteenth Century-An Introduction; 2 Major German Jesuit Writers and Their Biographies: A GlobalHistory from Individual Perspectives; 3 Father Eusebio Kino-The Pioneer: Discovery, Encounters, andthe Establishment of the Kino Missionary Network; 4 Joseph Stoecklein's Welt-Bott: A Jesuit's Collection of GlobalMissionary Reports for a German Audience

5 An Encyclopedic Approach to the Early History of Sonora: ThePimería Alta as Seen by Ignaz Pfefferkorn, a German ScientistMissionary and Anthropologist in the New World6 Joseph Och's Travel Reports: An Autobiographical Perspective; 7 The Personal Perspective: Letters by the Swiss Jesuit PhilippSegesser, a Missionary's Correspondence with His Family; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-89174-3

0-7391-7785-0

OCLC:

854969859