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Raising an Empire
Gonzalez, Ondina E.. Ed(S): Premo, Bianca
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Description for Raising an Empire
Paperback. Takes you on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America. This book challenges the conventional notion that children are invisible in the historical record. It contains essays that present their small subjects - elite maidens, abandoned babies, Indian servants, slave apprentices - through their lives and times. Editor(s): Premo, Bianca. Series Editor(s): Johnson, Lyman L. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 1KL; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, Spain and Portugal raised and nurtured vast American empires, both metaphorically and literally. From the very beginning, conquerors and settler elites engaged in colonial enterprises as they considered the New World through traditional Iberian ideas about childhood and as they established institutions for educating youths, sheltering infants, and extracting labor from children. Inevitably, Iberian concepts of childhood were transformed by everyday confrontations with the practices and norms of indigenous, African, and mixed-race inhabitants, and as new generations of truly colonial children were born. ""Raising an Empire"" takes readers on a journey into the ... Read more
From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, Spain and Portugal raised and nurtured vast American empires, both metaphorically and literally. From the very beginning, conquerors and settler elites engaged in colonial enterprises as they considered the New World through traditional Iberian ideas about childhood and as they established institutions for educating youths, sheltering infants, and extracting labor from children. Inevitably, Iberian concepts of childhood were transformed by everyday confrontations with the practices and norms of indigenous, African, and mixed-race inhabitants, and as new generations of truly colonial children were born. ""Raising an Empire"" takes readers on a journey into the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Dialogos
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826334411
SKU
V9780826334411
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About Gonzalez, Ondina E.. Ed(S): Premo, Bianca
Ondina E. Gonzalez is an independent scholar who has written on abandoned children in colonial Havana and the history of Christianity in Latin America. Bianca Premo is associate professor of Latin American history at Florida International University.
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