03800nam 2200649Ia 450 991077947170332120200520144314.01-283-89174-30-7391-7785-0(CKB)2550000000707634(EBL)1101138(OCoLC)854969859(SSID)ssj0000783125(PQKBManifestationID)11467517(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783125(PQKBWorkID)10752404(PQKB)11706211(MiAaPQ)EBC1101138(Au-PeEL)EBL1101138(CaPaEBR)ebr10639656(CaONFJC)MIL420424(OCoLC)823504900(EXLCZ)99255000000070763420121016d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEarly history of the Southwest through the eyes of German-speaking Jesuit missionaries[electronic resource] a transcultural experience in the eighteenth century /Albrecht ClassenLanham Lexington Books20131 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-7784-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries in the AmericanSouthwest: Global Perspectives of a Local Phenomenon in theEighteenth Century-An Introduction; 2 Major German Jesuit Writers and Their Biographies: A GlobalHistory from Individual Perspectives; 3 Father Eusebio Kino-The Pioneer: Discovery, Encounters, andthe Establishment of the Kino Missionary Network; 4 Joseph Stoecklein's Welt-Bott: A Jesuit's Collection of GlobalMissionary Reports for a German Audience5 An Encyclopedic Approach to the Early History of Sonora: ThePimería Alta as Seen by Ignaz Pfefferkorn, a German ScientistMissionary and Anthropologist in the New World6 Joseph Och's Travel Reports: An Autobiographical Perspective; 7 The Personal Perspective: Letters by the Swiss Jesuit PhilippSegesser, a Missionary's Correspondence with His Family; Conclusion; Bibliography; IndexThis book provides unique and lively, authentic, and source-based insights into the history, culture, geograpyh, fauna, flaura, geology, climate, and politics of eighteenth-century Sonora/Arizona, drawing from the fascinating first-hand accounts written by German speaking Jesuit missionaries. Transcultural experiences of extraordinary kinds dominate those accounts which allow us to understand the difficult, problematic, sometimes hostile, but then also productive and fruitful contacts, interactions, and dealings between the European missionaries and the native population.</spMissionariesSouthwest, NewHistory18th centurySourcesIndians of North AmericaSouthwest, NewHistory18th centurySourcesMissionariesSouthwest, NewBiographySouthwest, NewHistoryTo 1848SourcesSouthwest, NewForeign public opinion, GermanHistory18th centurySourcesSouthwest, NewForeign public opinion, SwissHistory18th centurySourcesSouthwest, NewEthnic relationsHistory18th centurySourcesMissionariesHistoryIndians of North AmericaHistoryMissionaries266.02343072Classen Albrecht16691MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779471703321Early history of the Southwest through the eyes of German-speaking Jesuit missionaries3712063UNINA