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Julia J. S. Sarreal - The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History - 9780804785976 - V9780804785976
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The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History

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Description for The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History Hardback. DRAFT (to be approved by sponsor): The Guarani and Their Missions on the South American Frontier is a socioeconomic history of the Guarani and their missions in the frontiers of the Rio de la Plata. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1H; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 590.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804785976
SKU
V9780804785976
Shipping Time
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About Julia J. S. Sarreal
Julia Sarreal is Assistant Professor in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on social history, economic history, and ethnohistory in colonial Latin America.

Reviews for The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History
"Julia Sarreal's history of the eighteenth-century economic growth and decline of the thirty Guaraní Jesuit missions in present-day Paraguay brings a wealth of new data and innovative analysis to the rich historiography on this important Iberian borderland in South America. Joining an international community of scholars whose work has developed the history of the Guaraní missions, Sarreal's research shows how ... Read more

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