CHAPTER 25 An Enterprise with a Rich Past but an Uncertain Future

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS xiii
4. TABLES xix
5. ABBREVIATIONS xxiii
6. GLOSSARY xxix
7. EDITORIAL CONVENTIONS xxxi
8. PART I The Creation
9. CHAPTER 1 The Founding of a Controversial New Society 3
10. CHAPTER 2 Formation of the Province of Portugal, 1541-ca. 1615 24
11. PART II Expansion
12. CHAPTER 3 Foundations of an Enterprise: The Distant Empire and Beyond, 1542-ca. 1615 41
13. CHAPTER 4 The Perils of Propinquity: The Jesuits and the Crown, 1557-1640 79
14. CHAPTER 5 Years of Achievement and Disappointment: The Jesuits and the Crown, I640-1706 101
15. CHAPTER 6 Mandarins and Martyrs: Gains and Losses in the East During the Seventeenth Century 130
16. CHAPTER 7 An Empire and a Society in Peril: Consequences of the Anglo-Dutch Intrusions in the Eastern Seas, 1600-1641 159
17. CHAPTER 8 The Collapse of the Estado da India and Its Impact upon the Society, 164I-1700 181
18. CHAPTER 9 Vicissitudes of the Enterprise in the Atlantic World During the Seventeenth Century 206
19. PART III Organization
20. CHAPTER 10 The Governance of an Enterprise: The Hierarchy of the Portuguese Assistancy 229
21. CHAPTER 11 Recruitment for an Enterprise: The Pertinacity of Eurocentrism 255
22. CHAPTER 12 The Fiscal Administration of an Enterprise 298
23. PART IV Financing an Enterprise: Sources of Controversy
24. CHAPTER 13 The Crown as Benefactor and Taskmaster 321
25. CHAPTER 14 "Sharers in the Good Works": The Society's Other Patrons 345
26. CHAPTER 15 The Economic Foundations of an Enterprise: The Acquisition of Lands 376
27. CHAPTER 16 The Economic Foundations of an Enterprise: The Utilization of Lands 402
28. CHAPTER 17 An Enterprise Under Attack: Attempts to Monitor, Curtail, and Eliminate the Jesuits' Patrimony 430
29. CHAPTER 18 God's Share or the King's? Jesuit Resistance to Payment of Tithes 461
30. CHAPTER 19 Jesuit Efforts to Defend the "Freedom" of the Brazilian Indians 474
31. CHAPTER 20 Those Who Also Served: Bondsmen and Lay Servants 502
32. CHAPTER 21 For Piety or Profit? The Commercial Activities of thejesuits in the Portuguese Empire 528
33. CHAPTER 22 Alternative Forms of Risk-Taking: The Jesuits as Lenders and Borrowers 552
34. PART V An Enterprise Questioned
35. CHAPTER 23 Vicissitudes of a Beleaguered Enterprise: The Society on the Defensive, 1700-1750 571
36. CHAPTER 24 Striking a Balance: For God or Mammon? 614
37. CHAPTER 25 An Enterprise with a Rich Past but an Uncertain Future 651
38. Appendixes
39. APPENDIX A Concerning Coinage, Money of Account, and Conversions 665
40. APPENDIX B The Society of Jesus as the Alleged First Multinational Firm 668
41. APPENDIX C Relations Between the Society and the Portuguese Inquisition 670
42. APPENDIX D Number of Jesuits Serving in the Portuguese Assistancy, 1549-r76o 674
43. APPENDIX E Inventory of Supplies, New St. Paul's College, Goa, 1707 677
44. APPENDIX F The Fate of the Jesuits Serving in the College of Olinda and Its Dependencies at the Time of the Second Dutch Invasion, r63o 680
45. Bibliographical Note 683
46. INDEX 691