Irina Saladin is permanent lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Koblenz. In 2018 she received her PhD from the University of Tuebingen. Until 2022 she was a member of the DFG priority program “Early Modern Translation Cultures.” In her current project, she is studying eighteenth-century maps by French geographers. Pamela E. Selwyn holds a PhD in History from Princeton University and has worked as a freelance translator in Berlin for many years.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Geography and the Society of Jesus: An Overview Chapter 3: Maps and Mission in the Amazon Chapter 4: Appropriation and Politics Chapter 5: Experience and Geometry Chapter 6: Territoriality and the Space of Jesuit Identity Chapter 7: Ethnography and Apologetics Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions Bibliography and Sources Index

Irina Saladin is permanent lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Koblenz. In 2018 she received her PhD from the University of Tuebingen. Until 2022 she was a member of the DFG priority program “Early Modern Translation Cultures.” In her current project, she is studying eighteenth-century maps by French geographers. Pamela E. Selwyn holds a PhD in History from Princeton University and has worked as a freelance translator in Berlin for many years.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Geography and the Society of Jesus: An Overview Chapter 3: Maps and Mission in the Amazon Chapter 4: Appropriation and Politics Chapter 5: Experience and Geometry Chapter 6: Territoriality and the Space of Jesuit Identity Chapter 7: Ethnography and Apologetics Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions Bibliography and Sources Index

Irina Saladin is permanent lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Koblenz. In 2018 she received her PhD from the University of Tuebingen. Until 2022 she was a member of the DFG priority program “Early Modern Translation Cultures.” In her current project, she is studying eighteenth-century maps by French geographers. Pamela E. Selwyn holds a PhD in History from Princeton University and has worked as a freelance translator in Berlin for many years.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Geography and the Society of Jesus: An Overview Chapter 3: Maps and Mission in the Amazon Chapter 4: Appropriation and Politics Chapter 5: Experience and Geometry Chapter 6: Territoriality and the Space of Jesuit Identity Chapter 7: Ethnography and Apologetics Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions Bibliography and Sources Index