LEADER 03773nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910806848003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89174-3 010 $a0-7391-7785-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707634 035 $a(EBL)1101138 035 $a(OCoLC)854969859 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783125 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11467517 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783125 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10752404 035 $a(PQKB)11706211 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1101138 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1101138 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10639656 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420424 035 $a(OCoLC)823504900 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707634 100 $a20121016d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEarly history of the Southwest through the eyes of German-speaking Jesuit missionaries $ea transcultural experience in the eighteenth century /$fAlbrecht Classen 210 $aLanham $cLexington Books$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-7784-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 Audience 327 $a5 An Encyclopedic Approach to the Early History of Sonora: ThePimeri?a 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; Index 330 $aThis 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.