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In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France and Spain's American colonies. That attention has brought a flow of new editions and translations of Jesuit accounts of the Americas; it is now time for a study that examines the full range of t...

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Otros Autores: Bernier, Marc André (Editor ), Donato, Clorinda (Editor ), Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Temas:
Anthropology > America > History > 17th century.
Anthropology > America > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment.
HISTORY / Canada / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Peculiar Idea of Empire: Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern History
  • 2. The Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilij's 1784 Saggio di Storia Americana
  • 3. Imagining the Kingdom of Quito: Reading History and National Identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del Reino de Quito
  • 4. For Love of Patria: Locating Self and Nation in Clavigero's Rendition of the Conquest of México
  • 5. Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer's History of the Abipones in a (Post)modern Perspective
  • 6. From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
  • 7. The Role of Culture and Art in France's Colonial Strategy of the Seventeenth Century
  • 8. José Basílio da Gama's Epic Poem O Uraguay (1769): An Intellectual Dispute about the Jesuit State of Paraguay
  • 9. Changing Perspectives: The Other, the Self, the In-Between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth Century
  • 10. East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of Their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America
  • 11. "Ils estoient si subjects à leur bouche": la Relation de 1616 face à la topique antijésuite
  • 12. Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l'observateur européen face au monde indigène
  • 13. Une rhétorique du silence: l'oeuvre jésuite dans la Description de la Louisiane du récollet Louis Hennepin
  • 14. L'héritage de José de Acosta
  • 15. La Nouvelle-France dans l'imaginaire jésuite: terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste?
  • 16. The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Enlightened
  • 17. Pierre Pelleprat's Accounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655)
  • 18. Dans le sillage du père Joseph-François Lafitau: les Avantures de Claude Le Beau
  • Postface: De l'usage de la comparaison dans les écrits des Jésuites sur les Amériques
  • Contributors
  • Index Nominum

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