The Bourbon reforms and the remaking of Spanish frontier missions / / by Robert H. Jackson.

• Superior document: European Expansion and Indigenous Response
• VerfasserIn: Jackson, Robert H.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (379 pages)

"The Bourbon monarchs who ascended the Spanish throne in 1700 attempted to reform the colonial system they had inherited, and, in particular, to make administration more efficient and cost-effective. This book analyses one aspect of the Bourbon reforms, which was the efforts to transform frontier missions, to make the missions more cost-effective, and to accelerate the integration of indigenous peoples in northern Mexico to European cultural norms. In some instances, the Crown had funded missions for more than a century, but with minimal results. The book attempts to show how the mission programs changed, and what the consequences - especially demographic - were for the indigenous peoples brought to live on the missions"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Initial thoughts -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Preliminaries -- The Sierra Gorda and Texas missions -- The Bourbon reforms and the ex-Jesuit missions of Baja California and Northern Sonora -- The Jesuit missions among the Guaraní -- Congregation: The formation of the California mission communities -- The Mission urban plan, social control, and indigenous resistance -- Demographic patterns on the missions -- An alternative pattern of development: San Diego and San Luis Rey Missions -- Non-indigenous settlers in California -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Saint or sinner? reformers and missionaries -- Appendix 1: The Jesuit presence in Spanish America in 1767 -- Appendix 2: Population, baptisms, and burials on selected Texas Missions -- Appendix 3: The population and vital rates of selected Baja California Missions -- Appendix 4: The population and vital rates of selected Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní -- Appendix 5: The population and vital rates of selected California Missions and the Villa de Branciforte -- Selected bibliography -- Index.