many meanings of poverty
Subtitle: colonialism, social compacts, and assistance in eighteenth-century Ecuador
By: Cynthia E. Milton.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804751780
Subjects: Poverty -- Ecuador -- Quito -- History -- 18th century; Poor -- Ecuador -- Quito -- History -- 18th century; Economic assistance, Domestic -- Ecuador -- Quito -- History -- 18th century; Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- History -- 18th century; Ecuador -- History -- To 1809
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonialism, social compacts, and the taxonomy of poverty; title: The city of Quito; title: Living on the edge : survival strategies of the urban poor; title: Defining the "solemn poor" : wordplay and petitions of poverty in colonial Quito, 1678-1782; title: Prostrate before the feet of the king : widows, wdowhood, pensions, and colonial compacts; title: Children on the fringe of empire : the limits and uses of juvenile welfare; title: Putting the colonial (poor) house in order : the wretched poor and the Bourbon state; title: Shifting compacts of the traditional poor : widows as viudas and as pobres; title: The broadening and narrowing of the solemn poor : poor Spaniards, the wretched, and collapsing privileges; title: The erosion of charity, boundaries, and colonial compacts.