The Jesuits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jesuits write by John W. O'Malley. This book was released on 2016-01-28. The Jesuits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years scholars in a range of disciplines have begun to re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. Approaching the subject with new questions and methods, they have reconsidered the importance of the Society in many sectors, including those related to the sciences and the arts. They have also looked at the Jesuits as emblematic of certain traits of early modern Europeans, especially as those Europeans interacted with 'the Other' in Asia and the Americas. Originating in an international conference held at Boston College in 1997, the thirty-five essays here reflect this new historiographical trend. Focusing on the Old Society- the Society before its suppression in 1773 by papal edict- they examine the worldwide Jesuit undertaking in such fields as music, art, architecture, devotional writing, mathematics, physics, astronomy, natural history, public performance, and education, and they give special attention to the Jesuits' interaction with non-European cultures, in North and South America, China, India, and the Philippines. A picture emerges not only of the individual Jesuit, who might be missionary, diplomat, architect, and playwright over the course of his life in the Society, but also of the immense and many-faceted Jesuit enterprise as forming a kind of 'cultural ecosystem'. The Jesuits of the Old Society liked to think they had a way of proceeding special to themselves. The question, Was there a Jesuit style, a Jesuit corporate culture? is the thread that runs through this interdisciplinary collection of studies.
The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata
The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata write by Barbara Anne Ganson. This book was released on 2003. The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ethnographic study is a revisionist view of the most significant and widely known mission system in Latin Americathat of the Jesuit missions to the Guaraní Indians, who inhabited the border regions of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It traces in detail the process of Indian adaptation to Spanish colonialism from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. The book demonstrates conclusively that the Guaraní were as instrumental in determining their destinies as were the Catholic Church and Spanish bureaucrats. They were neither passive victims of Spanish colonialism nor innocent children of the jungle, but important actors who shaped fundamentally the history of the Río de la Plata region. The Guaraní responded to European contact according to the dynamics of their own culture, their individual interests and experiences, and the changing political, economic, and social realities of the late Bourbon period.
The Guaraní and Their Missions
The Guaraní and Their Missions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Guaraní and Their Missions write by Julia J. S. Sarreal. This book was released on 2014-06-11. The Guaraní and Their Missions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The thirty Guaraní missions of the Río de la Plata were the largest and most prosperous of all the Catholic missions established throughout the frontier regions of the Americas to convert, acculturate, and incorporate indigenous peoples and their lands into the Spanish and Portuguese empires. But between 1768 and 1800, the mission population fell by almost half and the economy became insolvent. This unique socioeconomic history provides a coherent and comprehensive explanation for the missions' operation and decline, providing readers with an understanding of the material changes experienced by the Guaraní in their day-to-day lives. Although the mission economy funded operations, sustained the population, and influenced daily routines, scholars have not focused on this important aspect of Guaraní history, primarily producing studies of religious and cultural change. This book employs mission account books, letters, and other archival materials to trace the Guaraní mission work regime and to examine how the Guaraní shaped the mission economy. These materials enable the author to poke holes in longheld beliefs about Jesuit mission management and offer original arguments regarding the Bourbon reforms that ultimately made the missions unsustainable.
Humanities
Humanities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanities write by Lawrence Boudon. This book was released on 2005-02-01. Humanities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2000, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 1999. The subject categories for Volume 60 are as follows: Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Music Philosophy: Latin American Thought
Paraguay, First Edition
Paraguay, First Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paraguay, First Edition write by Margaret Hebblethwaite. This book was released on 2010. Paraguay, First Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only stand-alone guidebook to the country in English, Bradt s Paraguay takes readers from the city sites of Asuncion to the wild and underpopulated Chaco region and the historial Jesuit missions. Written by an author who s been resident in rural Paraguay for a decade, it s an authoritative and detailed introduction to an emerging tourism destination."
