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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2021.65.76411
Submitted: 2020-07-11
Published: 2021-07-02

The Bourbon-Era Mission Reform

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Robert H. Jackson

Robert H. Jackson recibió su doctorado en 1988 de la Universidad de California, Berkeley, con una especialidad en Historia de América Latina. Sus temas de investigación incluyen el liberalismo del siglo xix, el sistema de castas, misiones fronterizas y la demografía histórica. Ha publicado 24 libros y más de 70 artículos y capítulos de libros, que incluyen Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2019) y The Public Rituals of Life, Death, and Resurrection in Tlayacapan, Morelos (Mexico) (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). Es un investigador  independiente radicado en la ciudad de México.

Bourbon Reforms Sierra Gorda Apostolic College of San Fernando José de Gálvez Jesuit Missions among the Guarani California Chumash

Abstract

After the Spanish colonized California in 1769, Franciscans from the Apostolic College of San Fernando (Mexico City) established missions but implemented a new model to more rapidly integrate indigenous populations into colonial society as per the expectations of royal officials. The indigenous populations were to be congregated on mission communities organized on the grid plan and were to live in European-style housing. This article examines the reform of missions in the Sierra Gorda, Baja California, on the ex-Jesuit missions among the Guarani in South America, and then those in California among the Chumash. It analyzes the process of congregation and the mission urban plan, resistance, and demographic collapse resulting from congregation.

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Jackson, R. H. (2021). The Bourbon-Era Mission Reform. Estudios De Historia Novohispana, (65), 13–53. https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2021.65.76411

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