The missions as germ of urbanization

Abstract

The contribution pretends to value the rol of the missions, in this case the jesuit ones, on the mobile spanish-portuguese frontier in Southamerica (the Amazonas and the Guaraní region) as germ of protourbanization

Keywords

• jesuit missions
• Southamerica
• Brazil
• Amazonas
• guaraní wars
• Frontier Treaty 1750
• protourbanization