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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792236603321

Autore

Cushner Nicholas P

Titolo

Why have you come here? [[electronic resource] ] : the Jesuits and the first evangelization of native America / / Nicholas P. Cushner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-4356-1916-1

1-281-16336-8

0-19-804208-6

0-19-530801-8

9786611163365

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Classificazione

15.85

Disciplina

266/.27

Soggetti

North America History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Two Worlds Meet; 2. La Florida; 3. The Four Rivers of Sinaloa; 4. Conquest, Pacification, and Conversion; 5. Julí: Utopia or Theocracy; 6. The Guaraní; 7. Art, Architecture, and Theater; 8. The Beaver and the Fleur-de-Lis; 9. Maryland: "A Fine, Poor Man's Country"; 10. Retrospective; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y

Sommario/riassunto

'Why Have You Come Here?' examines how the Jesuits behaved toward the indigenous population and analyzes the way in which native belief systems were replaced by Christianity. It also seeks to understand how the European-Indian encounter changed their material culture.