Harvest of Souls
Subtitle: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632-1650 (Mcgill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780773520479
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Christian mission & evangelism; Colonization & independence; Specific Religious Congregations And Orders; c 1600 to c 1700; History: American; World - Colonial Studies; Roman Catholic Church; Quâebec (Province); Religion; History - General History; Missions & Missionary Work; Wyandot Indians; North America; Indians of North America; Canada - General; Christian Ministry - Missions; Christianity - Catholicism; Quebec (Province); Christianity - Catholic; Christianity - General; 17th century; History; Jesuits; Missions; Montagnais Indians
Description: "In Harvest of Souls Carole Blackburn uses the Jesuit Relations to shed light on the dialogue between Jesuit missionaries and the Native peoples of northeastern North America, providing a historical anthropology of two cultures attempting to understand, contend with, and accommodate each other in the new world." "Harvest of Souls is essential for all those interested in new approaches to historical and contemporary relations between Europeans and Native people in North America."--BOOK JACKET.