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France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Ser.: Apostles of Empire : The Jesuits and New France by Bronwen McShea (2019, Hardcover)

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PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press

ISBN-101496208900

ISBN-139781496208903

eBay Product ID (ePID)13038373593

Product Key Features

Number of Pages378 Pages

Publication NameApostles of Empire : the Jesuits and New France

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

SubjectChristian Ministry / Missions, Canada / General, Canada / Pre-Confederation (To 1867), Europe / France, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Native American

TypeTextbook

AuthorBronwen Mcshea

Subject AreaReligion, History

SeriesFrance Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight23.3 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2018-045055

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"McShea's book is an impressive work of research, one which adds considerably to our knowledge of the mission of the Society of Jesus in North America."--Michael Walsh, Reading Religion, "This text firmly establishes McShea as a leading contemporary scholar of French religious history. . . . In our time of resurgent national feeling throughout the West and much intra-Catholic disagreement about the nation's place in the world, the type of realism advocated by McShea in trying to understand what Catholics do, and how and why they do it, seems more necessary than ever."--Samuel Gregg, Catholic World Report, "A boldly revisionist account of the Jesuit mission in New France. . . . This impressively researched, well-structured, and superbly written narrative makes important contributions to our knowledge of early modern Jesuits, Catholicism, France, French colonialism, and the Atlantic World, while simultaneously casting modern French colonialism in a new light."--Brad S. Gregory, author of The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society, " Apostles of Empire is an important addition to the historiography of Jesuit missions, New France, and the French Atlantic World."--Riley Wallace, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, " Apostles of Empire is a meticulously researched, elegantly written, and precisely aimed salvo intended to demolish some of historiography's most cherished myths about the Jesuits in North America."--Maru Dunn, Journal of Jesuit Studies, "If this book is any indication, McShea will be an authoritative figure in colonial French history for many years to come. Her ability to extrapolate a nuanced, multifaceted, and unique interpretation from the multivolume Relations is a Herculean task for any scholar in this field. However, her true skill comes from understanding the context and, even at times, subtext of the primary sources."--William Carroll, H-Borderlands, " Apostles of Empire is an excellent transatlantic history of the French Jesuit order that problematizes the historiographical divide between missionary work and empire."--Eric J. Toups, Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, "McShea's deeply original monograph is a must read for scholars of Early America. Authoritatively debunking the myth of French Jesuit missions as otherworldly, Apostles of Empire demonstrates that we cannot fully understand the history of North American imperial competition without French Jesuits."--Gabrielle Guillerm, American Catholic Studies, "Thanks to McShea's meticulous research, these missionaries now appear less as ascetic martyrs devoted to saving Native American souls and more as worldly imperialists committed to spreading French civilization. In tracing the 'civilizing mission' back to the seventeenth century, this study upends current assumptions about the Enlightenment origins of modern French imperialism."--Charles Walton, author of Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, " Apostles of Empire is a meticulously researched, elegantly written, and precisely aimed salvo intended to demolish some of historiography's most cherished myths about the Jesuits in North America."--Mary Dunn, Journal of Jesuit Studies, "One comes away from the book with a sense of a lost world recovered and portrayed in loving detail. McShea has done for early modern North America and New France what Andrew Willard Jones's Before Church and State did for the France of the 13th century. The result is a triumph of the historian's art."--Adrian Vermeule, America: The Jesuit Review, "[ Apostles of Empire ] represents a valuable contribution to French colonial history and transatlantic cultural and intellectual exchange, as well as to a better understanding of French influence on the development of modern American society in general."--Mirela Altic, Terrae Incognitae, "It often takes a great work to plainly state what historians know but rarely say outright. Apostles of Empire is such a book."--Nicholas Lewis, Sixteenth Century Journal, "One comes away from the book with a sense of a lost world recovered and portrayed in loving detail. McShea has done for early modern North America and New France what Andrew Willard Jones's Before Church and State did for the France of the thirteenth century. The result is a triumph of the historian's art."--Adrian Vermeule, America: The Jesuit Review

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal266.271

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Note on Primary Sources Part 1. Foundations and the Era of the Parisian Relations 1. A Mission for France 2. Rescuing the "Poor Miserable Savage" 3. Surviving the Beaver Wars and the Fronde 4. Exporting and Importing Catholic Charity Part 2. A Longue Durée of War and Metropolitan Neglect 5. Crusading for Iroquois Country 6. Cultivating an Indigenous Colonial Aristocracy 7. Losing Paris 8. A Mission with No Empire Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Synopsis2020 Catholic Press Association Book Award in the History category Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise in which secular concerns were integral. Between 1611 and 1764, 320 Jesuits were sent from France to North America to serve as missionaries. Most labored in colonial New France, a vast territory comprising eastern Canada and the Great Lakes region that was inhabited by diverse Native American populations. Although committed to spreading Catholic doctrines and rituals and adapting them to diverse indigenous cultures, these missionaries also devoted significant energy to more-worldly concerns, particularly the transatlantic expansion of the absolutist-era Bourbon state and the importation of the culture of elite, urban French society. In Apostles of Empire Bronwen McShea accounts for these secular dimensions of the mission's history through candid portraits of Jesuits engaged in a range of secular activities. We see them not only preaching and catechizing in terms that borrowed from indigenous idioms but also cultivating trade and military partnerships between the French and various Indian tribes. Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing research on the Jesuits, New France, and Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early modern French society, print culture, Catholicism, and imperialism. McShea shows how the Jesuits' robust conceptions of secular spheres of Christian action informed their efforts from both sides of the Atlantic to build up a French and Catholic empire in North America through significant indigenous cooperation., Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise in which secular concerns were integral. Between 1611 and 1764, 320 Jesuits were sent from France to North America to serve as missionaries. Most labored in colonial New France, a vast territory comprising eastern Canada and the Great Lakes region that was inhabited by diverse Native American populations. Although committed to spreading Catholic doctrines and rituals and adapting them to diverse indigenous cultures, these missionaries also devoted significant energy to more-worldly concerns, particularly the transatlantic expansion of the absolutist-era Bourbon state and the importation of the culture of elite, urban French society. In Apostles of Empire Bronwen McShea accounts for these secular dimensions of the mission's history through candid portraits of Jesuits engaged in a range of secular activities. We see them not only preaching and catechizing in terms that borrowed from indigenous idioms but also cultivating trade and military partnerships between the French and various Indian tribes. Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing research on the Jesuits, New France, and Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early modern French society, print culture, Catholicism, and imperialism. McShea shows how the Jesuits' robust conceptions of secular spheres of Christian action informed their efforts from both sides of the Atlantic to build up a French and Catholic empire in North America through significant indigenous cooperation.

LC Classification NumberF1030.8.M38 2019