Raising an empire
Subtitle: children in early modern Iberia and colonial Latin America
By: edited by Ondina E. González and Bianca Premo
Contributors: González, Ondina E., 1958-; Premo, Bianca
Series: Diálogos; Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780826334411
Subjects: Children -- Iberian Peninsula -- History; Children -- Latin America -- History; Iberian Peninsula -- Social conditions; Portugal -- Colonies -- America -- Social conditions; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Children of the empire / by Ondina E. González; title: Up and out : children in Portugal and the empire (1500-1800) / by Isabel dos Guimarães Sá; title: "Not all the orphans really are" : the diversity of Seville's juvenile charity wards during the long eighteenth century / by Valentina Tikoff; title: Growing up Indian: migration, labor, and life in Lima (1570-1640) / by Teresa C. Vergara; title: Ursula : the life and times of an aristocratic girl in Santiago, Chile (1666-1678) / by Jorge Rojas Flores; title: Consuming interests : the response to abandoned children in colonial Havana / by Ondina E. González; title: The church, the state, and the abandoned : expósitos in late eighteenth-century Havana / by Ann Twinam; title: Slavery and childhood in Brazil (1550-1888) / by Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof; title: Like a servant or like a son? : circulating children in northwestern Mexico (1790-1850) / by Laura Shelton; title: Conclusion: "The little hiders" and other reflections on the history of children in imperial Iberoamerica / by Bianca Premo