TY - BOOK AU - Classen,Albrecht TI - Early history of the Southwest through the eyes of German-speaking Jesuit missionaries: a transcultural experience in the eighteenth century SN - 9780739177853 AV - F799 .C55 2013eb U1 - 979/.01 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - Jesuits KW - Southwest, New KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Sources KW - Europe, German-speaking KW - Biography KW - Missionaries KW - Indians of North America KW - HISTORY KW - United States KW - State & Local KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Ethnic relations KW - fast KW - Public opinion, German KW - Public opinion, Swiss KW - To 1848 KW - Foreign public opinion, German KW - Foreign public opinion, Swiss KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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.