| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 591 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; Chapter One; Chapter Two; The Organization of Evangelization; Mudéjar Influence in the Chiapas Convents; The Sixteenth Century Chiapas Doctrinas; Chapter Three; Augustinian Missions on and beyond the Chichimeca Frontier; Dominican Missions beyond the Chichimeca Frontier; Franciscan Missions on and beyond the Chichimeca Frontier; Franciscan Mission Reorganization; The Jesuits in the Sierra Gorda; Augustinian Missions beyond the Chichimeca Frontier; Dominican Missions beyond the Chichimeca Frontier; Franciscan Missions beyond the Chichimeca Frontier |
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Jesuit Missions beyond the Chichimeca FrontierChapter Four; Missions in Paraguay; Missions in Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil; Missions in Corrientes, Argentina; Missions in Misiones; The Population and Vital Rates of the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay; Chapter Five; A Case Study of Demographic Patterns on the Chiquitos Missions; Architecture and Urban Plan on the Chiquitos Missions; The Chiquitos Missions; The Population and Vital Rates of the Chiquitos Missions; The Moxos Missions; Chapter Six; The Franciscans in Sonora; The Jesuit Missions of Sinaloa; The Jesuit Missions of Sonora |
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Missions in the SierraThe missions in the San Miguel River Valley; Missions in the Sonora River Valley; The Pimeria Alta Missions; Chapter Seven; The Seventeenth Century Missions; The Eighteenth-Century Missions; The El Paso Area Missions; Chapter Eight; San Bernardo (Guerrero, Coahuila); San Antonio de Valero (San Antonio, Texas); San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (San Antonio, Texas); La Purísima Concepción (San Antonio, Texas); San Juan Capistrano (San Antonio, Texas); San Francisco de la Espada (San Antonio, Texas); Nuestra Señora del Espiritu Santo (Goliad, Texas) |
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Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Goliad, Texas)Chapter Nine; San José de Comondú; Other Selected Baja California Missions; Chapter Ten; La Purísima Concepción (1787); The first site of La Purísima Concepción (1787-1812); 1854 Plat Maps of the California Missions and selected historic illustrations San Diego (1769); Chapter Eleven; Earthquake of September 7, 2017; Earthquake of September 19, 2017 |
| Summary |
From the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, the Spanish Crown sponsored missions staffed by members of different Catholic missionary orders to evangelize the indigenous populations, and engage in social engineering in line with royal policy. The missionaries directed the construction of building complexes that included churches, leaving behind an important historical and architectural legacy. This visual catalog documents the surviving complexes on selected missions on the frontiers of Spanish America in what today is Mexico and parts of South America. It also presents basic historic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 5, 2019) |
| Subject |
Spanish mission buildings -- Mexico
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Spanish mission buildings -- South America
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious.
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Spanish mission buildings
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South America
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Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527527713 |
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1527527719 |
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