Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians

Milanich, Jerald T.

ISBN 10: 1560989408 / ISBN 13: 9781560989400

Editore: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999

Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Codice articolo C09B-03126

Riassunto:

This book is dedicated to Michael Gannon and explicitly updates his 1965 The Cross in the Sand but views the subject from a different perspective: Where Gannon focused on the mission effort from the missionaries' point of view, Jerald T. Milanich is interested in the way Florida missions affected and were affected by the southeastern Indians they attempted to convert. In eight chapters he outlines the problem of the "lost" missions and the archaeology that has rediscovered them; describes the indigenous peoples of Florida at the time of contact with Europeans; recounts the major events of Spanish exploration; describes early Jesuit missions that failed; introduces the Franciscan missions that succeeded; provides detailed descriptions of Indian life in the mission settlements; traces significant Indian resistance to colonization and missionization; and finally recounts the collapse of the mission system under the inexorable onslaught of English attacks.

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Titolo: Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish ...
Casa editrice: Smithsonian Institution Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Very Good
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