"In Harvest of Souls Carole Blackburn uses the Jesuit Relations to shed light on the dialogue between Jesuit missionaries and the Native peoples of northeastern North America, providing a historical anthropology of two cultures attempting to understand, contend with, and accommo…
This groundbreaking new study examines the history of the Yaqui people and their interactions with the Spanish Empire from first contact through Mexican independence. The Yaquis and the Empire focuses on three ironies: the Yaquis both resisted and came to value their ties with e…
The remarkable life of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, one of the most famous missionaries of all time and the founder of the Catholic Mission in China. This is the first critical biography to use all relevant sources, not only in western languages but in Chinese as well.
In 1644 the Qing dynasty seized power in China. Its Manchu elite were initially viewed by their subjects as foreigners and the consolidation of Qing rule presented significant challenges. It was the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722) who set the dynasty on a firm footing, and one of …
Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773 (the year of its suppression by papal …
In this book leading scholars from around the world discuss the most dramatic event in the Society of Jesus's history. The order was suppressed by papal command in 1773 and for the next forty-one years ex-Jesuits endeavoured to keep the Ignatian spirit alive and worked towards t…
"Vitally important, the writings of seventeenth-century French Jesuits in Native North America tell the story of early American encounters. This new edition binds them into a thematically arranged, 36-document sampler with a detailed introduction that provides background on thes…
