Juan Ignacio Molina
Subtitle: The World's Window on Chile (American University Studies Series IX, History)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780820452197
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Biography: historical; Ecology; South America - History; Biography & Autobiography; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Biography/Autobiography; General; Historical - General; Latin America - South America; Life Sciences - Ecology; 1740-1829; Biography; Chile; Historians; Jesuits; Molina, Giovanni Ignazio,; Naturalists; Provincia de Chile
Description: "This book is a biography of a Chilean Jesuit, Juan Ignacio Molina (1740-1829), a historian and naturalist, who wrote the Storia Naturale del Chili (1782) and the Storia Civile del Chili (1787). Before his death at the age of eighty-nine, he had spent most of his life in Bologna, Italy, as a result of the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish Empire in 1767.

Molina was also an ardent defender of the Americas against the false diatribes by writers such as Corneille de Pauw and William Robertson."--BOOK JACKET.