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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

González, Ondina E., 1958-

Premo, Bianca.

Series:

Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Diálogos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Iberian Peninsula--History.

Children.

Children--Latin America--History.

Colonies.

Social conditions.

History.

Iberian Peninsula--Social conditions.

Iberian Peninsula.

Europe--Iberian Peninsula.

Portugal--Colonies--America--Social conditions.

Portugal.

Spain--Colonies--America--Social conditions.

Spain.

America.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826334411

0826334415

OCLC:

123029405