The making of an enterprise : the Society of Jesus in Portugal, its empire, and beyond, 1540-1750
"This is the first part of a major two volume history of the Society of Jesus in Portugal. The present volume begins with the Society's introduction to Portugal and traces its expansion throughout the Portuguese Assistancy, a vast complex of administrative units that included portions of the Indian subcontinent, Japan, China, the Indonesian archipelago, and Ethiopia. Though it fully describes the evangelical and educational activities of the Jesuits, the book emphasises their political relations with Portuguese and Indigenous leaders, the founding of their major training facilities, the development of their economic infrastructure, their activities as government administrators and their role in Portugal's unsuccessful attempts to preserve her eastern empire and to revive Brazil after the Dutch occupation (1630-1654). The second volume, covering the period 1750 to 1808, will examine the Order's expulsion from Portugal and her empire."--Publisher's information
Print Book, English, 1996
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1996