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Convicts and orphans : forced and state-sponsored colonizers in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755 / Timothy J. Coates.
Van Pelt Library JV4227 .C578 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coates, Timothy J., 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Portugal--Colonies--Emigration and immigration.
- Portugal.
- Ex-convicts--Colonies--Portugal.
- Ex-convicts.
- Ex-convicts--Colonies.
- Orphans--Colonies--Portugal.
- Orphans.
- Orphans--Colonies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire. In addition, it addresses the issue of gender in the state' s use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries if they agreed to relocate overseas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804733597
- OCLC:
- 46835474
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