Apostles of Empire - The Jesuits and New France

Informationen zum Autor Bronwen McShea earned her PhD in early modern history at Yale University and an MTS in the history of Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. She has books forthcoming on the life of Cardinal Richelieu’s heiress, the Duchesse d’Aiguillon, and on women in the history of the Catholic Church.   Klappentext Bronwen McShea is a 2018–19 fellow of the James Madison Program at Princeton University and has taught history at the University of Nebraska Omaha and Columbia University. ¿ Zusammenfassung Offers a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise in which secular concerns were integral. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNote on Primary SourcesPart 1. Foundations and the Era of the Parisian Relations1. A Mission for France2. Rescuing the “Poor Miserable Savage”3. Surviving the Beaver Wars and the Fronde4. Exporting and Importing Catholic CharityPart 2. A Longue Durée of War and Metropolitan Neglect5. Crusading for Iroquois Country6. Cultivating an Indigenous Colonial Aristocracy7. Losing Paris8. A Mission with No EmpireConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Bronwen McShea
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781496208903
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0890-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: France Overseas: Studies in Em; France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Em
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous