Bøker av Robert H. Jackson

Examines Indian life in the twenty-one missions Franciscans established in Alta California. In describing how the missions functioned between 1769 and 1848, the authors draw on previously unused sources to analyse change and continuity in Indian material culture and religious practices.

An exploration of the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. It examines the experiences of the natives brought to live on the missions, and the ways in which the mission programme attempted to change indigenous life.