The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion 1440-1770

by Charles Ralph Boxer

Book Overview

The distinguished historian C. R. Boxer devoted years of research and reflection on European expansion overseas into the Americas and Asia. In The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion, 1440-1770, his analytical survey of the role of the Portuguese and Spanish missionaries of the Roman Catholic Church in the overseas expansion of the Iberian powers, he finds that the lasting results vary enormously. "They range,"he writes, "from enduring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801869277
• ISBN13: 9780801869273
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 8.5"