Nonfiction · 1901
A Vanished Arcadia
Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767
For a century and a half the Jesuits ran a territory in what is now Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where the Guaraní lived in mission towns of several thousand people apiece, under an order that held the land in common, taught trades and music, and kept the slavers out — until the Portuguese and Spanish crowns partitioned the territory, the missions resisted, and the Society was expelled in 1767, after which the towns emptied and the forest took them. Cunninghame Graham, who had ridden through the ruins himself, sets out what the missions actually were, and argues against both the Jesuits' admirers and their enemies.
R. B. Cunninghame Graham published A Vanished Arcadia in 1901. He was a Scottish laird, a socialist Member of Parliament and a horseman who had spent years in South America, and the book's evidence is partly archival and partly what he saw on the ground.
This Bibliomancer edition presents the complete text.
Contents
New editions
Never lose your place.
This book is free to read in full, and stays that way. Leave an address: one click confirms it and opens a free account, so your progress and bookmarks sync across every device. You'll also hear when the next restored edition enters the archive. Terminate at any time.
About this edition
The text is free of copyright. This edition was prepared from an authoritative digitisation, processed by Bibliomancer under its own review protocol; every automated correction is recorded in its transformation log. Rights assessed for CA, EU, GB, US.
Source mind
About the author
Adjacent records
