| Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America Contributor(s): González, Ondina E. (Editor), Premo, Bianca (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0826334415 ISBN-13: 9780826334411 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2007 Annotation: From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, Spain and Portugal raised and nurtured vast American empires, both metaphorically and literally. From the very beginning, conquerors and settler elites engaged in colonial enterprises as they considered the New World through traditional Iberian ideas about childhood and as they established institutions for educating youths, sheltering infants, and extracting labor from children. Inevitably, Iberian concepts of childhood were transformed by everyday confrontations with the practices and norms of indigenous, African, and mixed-race inhabitants, and as new generations of truly colonial children were born. "Raising an Empire" takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America. Its contributors enter a vibrant 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. "Contributors" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - History | Latin America - General - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.230 |
| LCCN: 2007014102 |
| Series: Dialogos (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.69" W x 8.97" (0.98 lbs) 270 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - Spanish - Cultural Region - Portuguese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, Spain and Portugal raised and nurtured vast American empires, both metaphorically and literally. From the very beginning, conquerors and settler elites engaged in colonial enterprises as they considered the New World through traditional Iberian ideas about childhood and as they established institutions for educating youths, sheltering infants, and extracting labor from children. Inevitably, Iberian concepts of childhood were transformed by everyday confrontations with the practices and norms of indigenous, African, and mixed-race inhabitants, and as new generations of truly colonial children were born. Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America. Its contributors enter a vibrant 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gonzalez, Ondina E.: - Ondina E. González is an independent scholar who has written on abandoned children in colonial Havana and the history of Christianity in Latin America.Premo, Bianca: - Bianca Premo is associate professor of Latin American history at Florida International University. |