Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Robert H. Jackson.

In the 17th and 18th centuries Spain and Portugal contested control of the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands. The Jesuit missions among the Guarani played an important role in regional conflict through the provision of manpower for campaigns and supplies. However, regional conflict and particular...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:European Expansion and Indigenous Response 31.
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • General Series Editor's Preface
  • Contemporary map showing the location of the Jesuit missions
  • Acknowledgments and Some Initial Thoughts
  • Figures, Illustrations, Tables and Maps
  • Introduction
  • Profile of a Demographic Crisis: 1733-1740
  • Regional Conflict and the Militarization of the Jesuit Missions
  • Demographic Patterns on the Missions
  • Conclusions
  • Back Matter
  • The Population and Vital Rates of the Guaraní Missions discussed in Chapter 4
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.