Frontiers in Crisis
The Breakdown of the Missions in Far Northern Mexico and New Granada, 1821-1849
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane M Rausch (0000-0001-6653-5524, University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 340-359 |
| Publication date | 1987-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500014547 |
| OpenAlex | W2124778203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
The decline of the missions in far northern Mexico during the age of Santa Anna has attracted the attention of several scholars. Most recently David Weber inThe Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846has identified many complex national and regional factors that contributed to their demise, arguing that in the cases of California and Texas the government's secularization policy played a decisive role, while the reductions-towns of Indians converted to Christianity-in Arizona 'crumbled by default' and in New Mexico were quietly abandoned by the clergy.1(The termsecularizationmeans the replacement of state-supported missionaries from religious orders (regular clergy) with parish-supported priests obedient to the ecclesiastical hierarchy (secular clergy).) Many of these same destructive forces operated in New Granada (modern Colombia), where the once thriving missions on the eastern llanos frontier all but disappeared by the mid-nineteenth century. In striking contrast to the Mexican governments, however, those in New Granada were determined to revitalize the missions. A review of their unsuccessful efforts, when compared with the process in far northern Mexico, offers fresh insight into the viability of the mission as a frontier institution in Spanish America during the early national period
Demise · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Secularization · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Thriving · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · History and Politics in Latin America · Law
A history of the expansion of Christianity
Church Wealth in Mexico
A History of the Expansion of Christianity
Church and State in Latin America
Compendio de estadísticas históricas de Colombia
The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846
The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846
The Mission as a Frontier Institution
The Last Dictatorship
A Tropical Plains Frontier
Spain in America
Nueva Granada's Socialist Mirage
The Santander Regime in Gran Colombia
Indians and the Breakdown of the Spanish Mission System in California
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 1998 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |