{"id":5037,"date":"2019-01-17T13:17:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5037"},"modified":"2019-01-17T13:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:17:25","slug":"january-2019-new-book-on-jesuit-missions-among-the-guarani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5037","title":{"rendered":"January 2019: New Book on Jesuit Missions among the Guaran\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Jackson, a specialist in Latin American history, has published a new volume on the Jesuit missions among the Guaran\u00ed in the 17th and 18th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/37946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaran\u00ed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0examines the important role these missions played in the &#8220;disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands&#8221; as the Spanish and Portuguese empires fought for control of the region. Jackson pays particular attention, according to Brill publishers, to the &#8220;demographic consequences for the populations of the missions, such as the spread of contagion,&#8221; as the conflict escalated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In short, the book &#8220;documents regional conflict in the Rio de la Plata, the militarization of the Jesuit missions, and the demographic consequences of conflict for the mission populations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More information about this title, available through Brill&#8217;s European Expansion and Indigenous Response series,&#8221; is available at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/37946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/37946<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Jackson, a specialist in Latin American history, has published a new volume on the Jesuit missions among the Guaran\u00ed in the 17th and 18th centuries. &nbsp; Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaran\u00ed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries\u00a0examines the important role these missions played in the &#8220;disputed Rio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":5038,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5037","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5037\/revisions\/5039"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}