| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Robert H. Jackson. Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Study of the Impact of Environmental, Economic, Political, and Socio-Cultural Variations on the Missions in the Río de la Plata Region and on the Northern Frontier of New Spain. Scottsdale, Ariz.: Pentacle Press. 2005. PP. xxii, 568. $44.95.

Ecological context, economics, disease, demographics, and cultural impositions are the organizing categories used by Robert H. Jackson in his survey of mission activities on the frontiers of New Spain and Río de la Plata. Jackson's work is an excellent reminder that despite Franciscan dreams of a Christian utopia in northern New Spain, reducciones were far from viable in regions where the environment did not permit concentrated agriculture and its attendant population. "Nature's rhythm," and the degree to which different communities could work within its confines, appears throughout the book as the substratum underlying the success or failure of individual missions.

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