Raising an empire : children in early modern Iberia and colonial Latin America / edited by Ondina E. González and Bianca Premo

Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
Physical Description: xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators: González, Ondina E., 1958- and Premo, Bianca

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Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Contents

Introduction: Children of the empire / by Ondina E. González -- Up and out : children in Portugal and the empire (1500-1800) / by Isabel dos Guimarães Sá -- "Not all the orphans really are" : the diversity of Seville's juvenile charity wards during the long eighteenth century / by Valentina Tikoff -- Growing up Indian: migration, labor, and life in Lima (1570-1640) / by Teresa C. Vergara -- Ursula : the life and times of an aristocratic girl in Santiago, Chile (1666-1678) / by Jorge Rojas Flores -- Consuming interests : the response to abandoned children in colonial Havana / by Ondina E. González -- The church, the state, and the abandoned : expósitos in late eighteenth-century Havana / by Ann Twinam -- Slavery and childhood in Brazil (1550-1888) / by Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof -- Like a servant or like a son? : circulating children in northwestern Mexico (1790-1850) / by Laura Shelton -- Conclusion: "The little hiders" and other reflections on the history of children in imperial Iberoamerica / by Bianca Premo.

Subject(s)

Children—Iberian Peninsula—History
Children—Latin America—History
Iberian Peninsula—Social conditions
Portugal—Colonies—America—Social conditions
Spain—Colonies—America—Social conditions

ISBN

9780826334411 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826334415 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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