| Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima Contributor(s): Premo, Bianca (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807856193 ISBN-13: 9780807856192 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $40.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: Premo examines the social world of children and youths in Lima, Peru, the capital of the Spanish colonial empire in South America. She argues that there was a disjuncture between patriarchal laws and actual child rearing practices that caused the authority of men and masters to erode, straining the legal link between domestic governance and the Spanish king's colonial legitimacy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Children's Studies - History | Latin America - South America - Law | Legal History |
| Dewey: 305.230 |
| LCCN: 2005000607 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.22" W x 9.26" (1.19 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru. Situating these young lives within the framework of law and intellectual history from 1650 to 1820, Premo brings to light the colonial politics of childhood and challenges readers to view patriarchy as a system of power based on age, caste, and social class as much as gender. Although Spanish laws endowed elite men with an authority over children that mirrored and reinforced the monarch's legitimacy as a colonial "Father King," Premo finds that, in practice, Lima's young often grew up in the care of adults--such as women and slaves--who were subject to the patriarchal authority of others. During the Bourbon Reforms, city inhabitants of all castes and classes began to practice a "new politics of the child," challenging men and masters by employing Enlightenment principles of childhood. Thus the social transformations and political dislocations of the late eighteenth century occurred not only in elite circles and royal palaces, Premo concludes, but also in the humble households of a colonial city. |
Contributor Bio(s): Premo, Bianca: - Bianca Premo is associate professor of history at Florida International University. |
