Cameron D. Jones. In Service of Two Masters

In Service of Two Masters: The Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous Resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru is an excellent examination of the history of the Ocopa missionaries. Part of the Franciscan order, these missionaries were predominantly Spanish-born priests who embraced Bourbon Reform ideas as well as early colonial conversion strategies. In his examination of the Ocopa enterprise, Cameron D. Jones shows how a reform movement within a religious order was able to expand during a period when the monarchy reduced the power of many religious orders. In the process of showing readers the history of the Ocopa movement, Jones clearly demonstrates the dysfunction of a large colonial enterprise and how factions within religious orders and within the viceroyalty often influenced plans that were issued from the king himself. In the end the book provides more than a review of the Ocopa missionary effort: it clearly articulates the fractures within...

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