The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context Causes, Events, and Consequences

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Causes Plots and rumors of plots: The role of Conspiracy in the Internatonal campaign against the society of jesus, 1758-1768.............13 Between power and enlightenment: the cultural and intellectual context for the Jesuit suppression in france .........40 Friends as liabilities: Christoplhe de beaumont`s Defence of the Jesuits ..............65 2. Events On the road to suppression.......83 The end of the Jesuit mission in China .......100 The expulsion and suppression in portugal and spain ........117 The suppression of the Jesuits in the savoyard state ....................139 Lost in the title: John thorpe`s eyewitness account of the supression ................161 French jesuits 1756-1814................181 3. Consequences General suppression, russian survival, American success.................201 Adam beckers Jesuits in cmsterdam and the society of Jesus from suppression to restoration .....................216