Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival Among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish South America, 1609-1803

Despite the effects of epidemics of highly contagious old world crowd diseases, the native populations living on the Paraguay and Chiquitos missions survived and retained a unique ethnic identity. A comparative approach shows how demographic patterns on the Paraguay and Chiquitos missions differed from other Spanish frontier missions.

About the author

Robert H. Jackson received his doctorate in 1988 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a specialization in Latin American history. He has published more than ten books and 60 journal articles. Brill published his book Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Mexico in 2013. He currently resides in Mexico City.

Product details

• Authors: Robert H Jackson, Robert H. Jackson
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2015
• EAN: 9789004284999
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28499-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 254 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: European Expansion and Indigen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories