TY - BOOK ID - 143794374 TI - Spanish Bourbons and Wild Indians PY - 2004 SN - 1280302895 9786610302895 142379480X 1602580391 PB - Waco : Baylor University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Bourbon, House of. KW - Catholic Church -- Missions -- Latin America -- History. KW - Indians, Treatment of -- Latin America -- History -- 18th century. KW - Latin America -- Relations -- Spain -- History -- 18th century. KW - Spain -- Relations -- Latin America -- History -- 18th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143794374 AB - These lectures chronicle the Spanish Empire's policies toward the Indians of the Americas in the late eighteenth century. Since Indians independently controlled most of the area that Spain claimed to own, the Spaniards began to make significant political accommodations with some of these ''savages'' or ''wild Indians,'' whom they could neither defeat nor convert. Weber demonstrates that Spain's ideal mission changed between the Habsburg and Bourbon eras and, more importantly, local circumstances and local people, including Indians, determined how a mission would measure up to the Crown's objec ER -