Robert H. Jackson

Robert H. Jackson received his doctorate in 1988 from the University of California, Berkeley with a specialization in Latin American history. He has authored, co-authored, and edited 22 books and some 70 journal articles and book chapters on different aspects of Latin American history. His most recent studies include Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish South America, 1609-1803: The Formation and Persistence of Mission...See more

Robert H. Jackson received his doctorate in 1988 from the University of California, Berkeley with a specialization in Latin American history. He has authored, co-authored, and edited 22 books and some 70 journal articles and book chapters on different aspects of Latin American history. His most recent studies include Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish South America, 1609-1803: The Formation and Persistence of Mission Communities in a Comparative Context (2015), Frontiers of Evangelization: Indians in the Sierra Gorda and Chiquitos Missions (2017), and Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guarani in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2019). See less