Converting California : Indians and Franciscans in the missions /

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Author / Creator:Sandos, James A.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
Description:xix, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Western Americana series
Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5171494
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ISBN:0300101007 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. California's missions as instruments of social control
  • 2. Indians at contact
  • 3. Junipero Serra and Franciscan evangelization
  • 4. The Indians of San Diego say "no!"
  • 5. Serra refuses to turn back
  • 6. Fermin Francisco Lasuen and evangelization
  • 7. Evangelization in Serra's shadow
  • 8. The only heritage their parents gave them : syphilis, gonorrhea, and other diseases
  • 9. Music and conversion
  • 10. Indian resistance to missionization
  • 11. Assessing California's missions.