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List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Preface | p. xv |
Introduction: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and the Taxonomy of Poverty | p. 1 |
The City and People of Quito | |
The City of Quito | p. 17 |
Living on the Edge: Survival Strategies of the Urban Poor | p. 35 |
Society of Compacts: The Social Poor | |
Defining the "Solemn Poor": "Wordplay and Petitions of Poverty in Colonial Quito, 1678-1782 | p. 65 |
Prostrate before the Feet of the King: Widows, Widowhood, Pensions, and Colonial Compacts | p. 99 |
Society of Compacts: The Economic Poor | |
Children on the Fringe of Empire: The Limits and Uses of Juvenile Welfare | p. 125 |
Putting the Colonial (Poor) House in Order: The Wretched Poor and the Bourbon State | p. 153 |
When Societies Meet: The Blurring of Social Compacts | |
Shifting Compacts of the Traditional Poor: Widows as Viudas and as Pobres | p. 191 |
The Broadening and Narrowing of the Solemn Poor: Poor Spaniards, the Wretched, and Collapsing Privileges, 1783-1800 | p. 215 |
Conclusion: The Erosion of Charity, Boundaries, and Colonial Compacts | p. 245 |
Appendix | p. 257 |
Notes | p. 261 |
Glossary | p. 321 |
Bibliography | p. 325 |
Index | p. 349 |
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