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The Guaraní and their missions : a socioeconomic history /

Under Jesuit management, the Guaraní missions of the Río de la Plata region of South America were the largest and most prosperous of all the Catholic missions established to convert, acculturate, and incorporate indigenous peoples and their lands into the Spanish and Portuguese empires. The book i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sarreal, Julia J. S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Founding and early years
  • Urban towns on the frontier
  • The mission economy
  • End of an era
  • Bankruptcy
  • Should we stay or should we go?
  • Procuring necessities in the missions
  • Failed promise of prosperity
  • Prolonging the collapse.