The Making of an Enterprise

"This book represents a milestone, both in church and European expansion history. Nothing in print is as broad, inclusive, and probing as this study. It not only summarizes and integrates all previous scholarship, but it adduces and combines with the older studies a huge amount of original archival research. This is the best in-depth study of any religious order. "-George D. Winius, University of Leiden"This meticulously researched and clearly written tome is destined to be a frequently consulted classic on the shelves of historians of Portugal, Brazil, India, and the Society of Jesuits. Dauril Alden. paints a highly readable, informative, and detailed history of the Jesuits, the premier missionary order of the Portuguese Crown. "-Alida C. Metcalf, Trinity University