Communities on a frontier conflict : the Jesuit Guarani Mission los Santos Martires del Japon / by Robert H. Jackson ; with a contribution by Graciela Gayetzky de Kuna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Robert H. (Robert Howard), author.

Contributor:

de Kuna, Graciela Gayetzky, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--Japan--History.

Missions.

Conflict management--Religious aspects.

Conflict management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

In his historical satirical novel Candide, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) presented a fanciful vision of the Jesuit missions established among the Guaraní in parts of what today are Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. Some scholars have characterized the missions as having been a socialist utopia, or an independent republic located on the fringes of Spanish territory in South America. What was the reality? This study presents a detailed analysis of one of the Jesuit missions, Los Santos Mártires del Japón, and the story of the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by Spain and Portugal during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It documents the historical realities of the Jesuit missions, their patterns of development, and the demographic consequences for the mission populations of military conflict.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures and Maps

Acknowledgments and Initial Thoughts

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-1828-0

OCLC:

1056711390