Children of the Father King
Subtitle: youth, authority, and legal minority in colonial Lima
By: by Bianca Premo.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Children -- Peru -- Lima -- History; Children -- Peru -- Lima -- Social conditions; Youth -- Peru -- Lima -- History; Youth -- Peru -- Lima -- Social conditions; Juvenile delinquency -- Peru -- Lima; Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Peru -- History; Peru -- History -- 1548-1820
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Writing a history of Father Kings and colonial minors; title: A short history of minority in colonial Lima; title: Between the written and the real: child rearing and adult authority, 1650-1750; title: Whether son or stranger: institutions for child rearing; title: Minor offenses: youth and crime in the eighteenth century; title: The colonial child reborn: reform and enlightenment in the late colonial period; title: The new politics of the child in the late colonial courts; title: The new politics of the slave child in the late colonial courts; title: Conclusion. Strange ties and interior fears.