Shifting Interethnic Alliances and Social Organization in Sonora, 1768-1855
by
Jose De la Torre Curiel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new...