Founding and early years -- Urban towns on the frontier -- The mission economy -- End of an era -- Bankruptcy -- Should we stay or should we go? -- Procuring necessities in the missions -- Failed promise of prosperity -- Prolonging the collapse
Summary
Under Jesuit management, the Guaraní missions of the Río de la Plata region of South America were the largest and most prosperous of all the Catholic missions established to convert, acculturate, and incorporate indigenous peoples and their lands into the Spanish and Portuguese empires. The book is a socioeconomic history of the Guaraní and their missions
