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II. Jesuit Historiography in Spanish America

General Jesuit Historiography and Spanish America

Since the mid-nineteenth century, histories of the Society of Jesus began to include background information on the order’s restoration in Spanish America. Lay scholar Jacques Cretineau-Joly (1803–75) played a leading role in this trend. His six-volume Histoire religieuse, politique et littéraire de la Compagnie de Jésus was published in Paris and Lyon from 1844 to 1846 and was a triumph from the moment it was released.³³ It saw various editions and was translated into at least nine European languages. Chapter 6 of volume 6 dedicates a special section to Spanish America, covering the arrival of the Jesuits in Mexico and their proscription by General Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794–1876, eleven-time president of Mexico). Cretineau-Joly also comments on Argentina’s request for Jesuits to establish schools and their later difficulties with Buenos Aires’ governor Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877), their partial expulsion from that province in 1843, and their consequent migration to Chile, Brazil, and New Granada.³⁴

Another lay scholar, J. M. S. Daurignac, published a two-volum

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