Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949 - Erick D. Langer - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822344919 - August 19, 2009
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Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949


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Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This title examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America, the Franciscan missions among the Chiriguano Indians in southeastern Bolivia.


392 pages, 12 illustraions, 18 tables, 1 map

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 19, 2009
ISBN13 9780822344919
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 392
Dimensions 156 × 235 × 28 mm   ·   703 g

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