A theocratic commonwealth of thirty bell-towered reductions where Guaraní choirs sang Baroque masses, herded cattle on communal estancias, and drilled their own militia behind the Paraná and Uruguay.
Dissolved at the 1767-68 expulsion of the Jesuits; the missions decayed into ruins now scattered across Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil and inscribed as UNESCO heritage.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Jesuit Guaraní Missions — the shape you scrub through changes in 1609 · 1632 · 1751.
Cunninghame Graham's classic history of the Jesuit Guaraní reductions and their dissolution.
Documents the Guaraní experience inside the mission reductions and after the 1767–68 expulsion.