Raising an Empire : Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America

by Gonzalez, Ondina E.

• ISBN13: 9780826334411
• ISBN10: 0826334415
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Raising an Empiretakes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America.

Table of Contents

Introduction : children of the empire	p. 1
Up and out : children in Portugal and the empire (1500-1800)	p. 17
"Not all the orphans really are" : the diversity of Seville's juvenile charity wards during the long eighteenth century	p. 41
Growing up Indian : migration, labor, and life in Lima (1570-1640)	p. 75
Ursula : the life and times of an aristocratic girl in Santiago, Chile (1666-1678)	p. 107
Consuming interests : the response to abandoned children in colonial Havana	p. 137
The church, the state, and the abandoned : Expositos in late eighteenth-century Havana	p. 163
Slavery and childhood in Brazil (1550-1888)	p. 187
Like a servant or like a son? : circulating children in northwestern Mexico (1790-1850)	p. 119
Conclusion : "the little hiders" and other reflections on the history of children in imperial Iberoamerica	p. 238
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