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The many meanings of poverty : colonialism, social compacts, and assistance in eighteenth-century Ecuador

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Milton, Cynthia E. (autor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Colonialism, social compacts, and the taxonomy of poverty
  • The city of Quito
  • Living on the edge : survival strategies of the urban poor
  • Defining the "solemn poor" : wordplay and petitions of poverty in colonial Quito, 1678-1782
  • Prostrate before the feet of the king : widows, wdowhood, pensions, and colonial compacts
  • Children on the fringe of empire : the limits and uses of juvenile welfare
  • Putting the colonial (poor) house in order : the wretched poor and the Bourbon state
  • Shifting compacts of the traditional poor : widows as viudas and as pobres
  • The broadening and narrowing of the solemn poor : poor Spaniards, the wretched, and collapsing privileges
  • The erosion of charity, boundaries, and colonial compacts.