RT Book, Section
T1 "That in the Reducciones Had Been Noise of Weapons...": The Introduction of Firearms in the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Missions of Paraguay
A1 Svriz-Wucherer, Omar
K1 Spanish empire
K1 Global history
K1 Atlantic World
K1 Jesuits
K1 America
K1 Proyecto GECEM
AB This study aims to analyze the introduction of firearms in the Jesuit reductions of Paraguay during the seventeenth century. Examination of monarchy's sources will highlight the establishment of different intermediaries and mechanisms generated by Jesuits in order to furnish firearms to Guaraní natives. Furthermore, this chapter examines the obstacles that arose in this process of distributing firearms: the fathers of the Society of Jesus clashed, in fact, with the Spanish monarchy over the topic of firearm possession, a circumstance that conditioned the training and formation of the Guaraní militias during this period. The objective of this chapter is, therefore, to investigate the effectiveness of the defense of one border in the Spanish empire, developing a model that could be applied to other colonial spaces.
PB Routledge
SN 9781003168058
YR 2021
FD 2021-06-29
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11959
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/11959
LA en
NO American Globalization, 1492-1850: Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America, pp. 244-265.
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu.
NO www.gecem.eu. https://www.gecem.eu/publications/index.html
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO
DS RIO
RD May 4, 2026