Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France Contributor(s): McShea, Bronwen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496208900 ISBN-13: 9781496208903 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - Pre-confederation (to 1867) - History | Native American - History | Europe - France |
Dewey: 971.01 |
LCCN: 2018045055 |
Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.57 lbs) 378 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Cultural Region - French |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise in which secular concerns were integral. Between 1611 and 1764, 320 Jesuits were sent from France to North America to serve as missionaries. Most labored in colonial New France, a vast territory comprising eastern Canada and the Great Lakes region that was inhabited by diverse Native American populations. Although committed to spreading Catholic doctrines and rituals and adapting them to diverse indigenous cultures, these missionaries also devoted significant energy to more-worldly concerns, particularly the transatlantic expansion of the absolutist-era Bourbon state and the importation of the culture of elite, urban French society. |