Includes bibliographical references and index.

German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries in the Southwest : Global Perspectives of a Local Phenomenon in the Eighteenth Century : An Introduction -- Major German Jesuit Writers and Their Biographies : A Global History from Individualized Perspectives -- Padre Eusebio Kino -- the Pioneer : Discovery, Encounters, and the Establishment of the Kino Missionary Network -- Joseph Stoecklein's Welt-Bott : A Jesuit Missionary's Collection of Global Reports for a German Audience -- An Encyclopedic Approach to the Early History of Sonora : The Pimería Alta as Viewed by Ignaz Pfefferkorn, A German Scientist and Anthropologist Missionary in the New World -- Joseph Och's Travel Reports : An Autobiographical Perspective -- The Personal Perspective : Letters by the Swiss Jesuit Philipp Segesser : A Missionary's Correspondence with His Family.

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This book provides unique and lively, authentic, and source-based insights into the history, culture, geograpyh, fauna, flaura, geology, climate, and politics of eighteenth-century Sonora/Arizona, drawing from the fascinating first-hand accounts written by German speaking Jesuit missionaries. Transcultural experiences of extraordinary kinds dominate those accounts which allow us to understand the difficult, problematic, sometimes hostile, but then also productive and fruitful contacts, interactions, and dealings between the European missionaries and the native population.</sp.

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