Raising an Empire
Subtitle: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America (Dialogos)
Contributors: Ondina E. GonzÃ¡lez (Editor); Bianca Premo (Editor)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: October 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780826334411
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Social history; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Portugal; Spain; Children's Studies; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Latin America - General; History / Latin America; General; Children; History; Iberian Peninsula; Latin America; Social conditions
Description: "Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America. Its contributors enter a new field of study in the region and challenge the conventional notion that children are invisible in the historical record. Employing diverse methods to decode a wide variety of sources, these essays present their small subjects - elite maidens, abandoned babies, Indian servants, slave apprentices - through their lives and times."--Jacket.