Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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Spain and Portugal contested control over the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands, and the Guarani populations of the Jesuit missions provided manpower for campaigns. Conflict, however, brought demographic consequences for the mission populations. This study analyzes regional conflict and demographic patterns on the missions.

Author(s): Robert H. Jackson
Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response, 31
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019

Language: English
Pages: 216
City: Leiden

Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Copyright
Contents
General Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures, Illustrations, Tables and Maps
1 Introduction
2 Profile of a Demographic Crisis: 1733-1740
3 Regional Conflict and the Militarization of the Jesuit Missions
4 Demographic Patterns on the Missions
5 Conclusions
Appendix 1: The Population and Vital Rates of the Guaraní Missions discussed in Chapter 4
Selected Bibliography
Index