Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio De La Plata

Zusatztext "Barbara Ganson's study is a comprehensive collection of historical sources that explain the conditions of the Guaraní indigenous people in the last half of the eighteenth century. . . . [T]his study makes a major contribution towards explaining the emergence of the Paraguayan peasantry and the collapse of significant Guaraní resistance throughout the Southern Cone by 1820." Informationen zum Autor Barbara Ganson is Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. Klappentext This ethnographic study is a revisionist view of the most significant and widely known mission system in Latin America--that 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. > Zusammenfassung Presents a revisionist view of a mission system in Latin America - that of the Jesuit missions to the Guarani 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ganson Barbara, Barbara Ganson, Barbara Anne Ganson
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2005
• EAN: 9780804754958
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5495-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous