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 subjectselite maidens, abandoned babies, Indian servants, slave apprenticesthrough their lives and times.
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 subjectselite maidens, abandoned babies, Indian servants, slave apprenticesthrough their lives and times.
Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780826334411 |
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Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
Publication date: | 10/16/2007 |
Series: | Diálogos Series |
Pages: | 270 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d) |