Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830-1949

Author/Contributor(s):	Langer, Erick D
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	08/19/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Analyzes one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America, the Franciscan missions among the Chiriguano Indians in Bolivia, as a model for the study of a postcolonial missions system, focusing on the struggle of the Chrig