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Twilight of the Mission Frontier
Jose Refugio de La Torre Curiel
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Description for Twilight of the Mission Frontier
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new light is shed on how demographic, cultural, economic, and institutional variables modified life in the Franciscan missions in Sonora.During the late eighteenth century, forms of interaction between Sonoran indigenous groups and Spanish settlers grew in complexity and intensity, due in part to the implementation of reform-minded Bourbon policies which envisioned a more secular, productive, and ... Read more
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new light is shed on how demographic, cultural, economic, and institutional variables modified life in the Franciscan missions in Sonora.During the late eighteenth century, forms of interaction between Sonoran indigenous groups and Spanish settlers grew in complexity and intensity, due in part to the implementation of reform-minded Bourbon policies which envisioned a more secular, productive, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804785044
SKU
V9780804785044
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About Jose Refugio de La Torre Curiel
Jose Refugio De la Torre Curiel is Professor at El Colegio de Jalisco and Universidad de Guadalajara.
Reviews for Twilight of the Mission Frontier
"José Refugio De la Torre Curiel traces the institutional and economic history of these Sonoran missions from [1768] until their demise in the first decades of Mexico's early republican period . . . Recommended."
B. R. Larkin
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"This manuscript demonstrates a unique mastery of the English and Spanish literature on the missions of northwestern New Spain, ... Read more
B. R. Larkin
Choice
"This manuscript demonstrates a unique mastery of the English and Spanish literature on the missions of northwestern New Spain, ... Read more