Murphy’s Law at Work: Climate Anomalies, Famine, and Mortality Crises on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní, 1733–40

The modern adage known as Murphy’s Law states that what can go wrong will go wrong, and could be applied to a series of unfortunate events that befell the Jesuit administered missions among the Guaraní in the years 1733 to 1740. Weather anomalies resulted in poor crops and food shortages, and at the...

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Main Author: Jackson, Robert H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 278-306
Further subjects:B Smallpox
B epidemics
B Famine
B Jesuits
B Guaraní
B Drought
B weather anomalies
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