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Missions on the Frontiers of Spanish America
Author(s) -
JACKSON ROBERT H.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of religious history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9809
pISSN - 0022-4227
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9809.2009.00800.x
Subject(s) - colonialism , institution , order (exchange) , geography , political science , ethnology , economy , history , economic history , archaeology , business , law , economics , finance
This article examines missions as a colonial institution on the fringes of Spanish America. The Spanish Crown employed the mission as a cost‐effective form of converting to Catholicism native peoples living on the frontiers of Spanish America, and incorporating them into the new colonial social and economic order. The article compares missions in northern Mexico, the Río de la Plata region, and eastern Bolivia.