The Many Meanings of Poverty

The Many Meanings of Poverty

Author: Cynthia E. Milton

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780804751780

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The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context—it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism.


The Women of Colonial Latin America

The Women of Colonial Latin America

Author: Susan Migden Socolow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0521196655

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A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.


The Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century

The Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Allan J. Kuethe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1107043573

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This book covers the evolution of royal policy in Spanish America as eighteenth-century Spain modernized its empire and transformed itself into a power of the first order. Tracing the interplay between war and reform, the analysis confronts the diverse realities of the Spanish Atlantic world, which stretched from the northern Mexican borderlands to Argentina and Chile. Unlike earlier studies on eighteenth-century Spain, this work incorporates the early Bourbon experience into the narrative and integrates the impressive reemergence of the Royal Armada into a fuller picture of administrative, commercial, fiscal, ecclesiastical, and military change.


The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism: Volume 1, Patterns and Trajectories over the Longue Durée

The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism: Volume 1, Patterns and Trajectories over the Longue Durée

Author: Cathie Carmichael

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 889

ISBN-13: 1108672167

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This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivotal moments and turning points in the history of identity politics during the age of globalization, from 1500 through to the twentieth century. This overview is truly global, covering countries in East and South Asia as well as Europe and the Americas.


Families in War and Peace

Families in War and Peace

Author: Sarah C. Chambers

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-05-29

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0822375567

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In Families in War and Peace Sarah C. Chambers places gender analysis and family politics at the center of Chile's struggle for independence and its subsequent state building. Linking the experiences of both prominent and more humble families to Chile's political and legal history, Chambers argues that matters such as marriage, custody, bloodlines, and inheritance were crucial to Chile's transition from colony to nation. She shows how men and women extended their familial roles to mobilize kin networks for political ends, both during and after the Chilean revolution. From the conflict's end in 1823 until the 1850s, the state adopted the rhetoric of paternal responsibility along with patriarchal authority, which became central to the state building process. Chilean authorities, Chambers argues, garnered legitimacy by enacting or enforcing paternalist laws on property restitution, military pensions, and family maintenance allowances, all of which provided for diverse groups of Chileans. By acting as the fathers of the nation, they aimed to reconcile the "greater Chilean family" and form a stable government and society.


A Companion to Latin American Legal History

A Companion to Latin American Legal History

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-04

Total Pages: 627

ISBN-13: 900443609X

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This comprehensive volume offers fresh insights on Latin American and Caribbean law before European contact, during the colonial and early republican eras and up to the present. It considers the history of legal education, the legal profession, Indigenous legal history, and the legal history concerning Africans and African Americans, other enslaved peoples, women, immigrants, peasants, and workers. This book also examines the various legal frameworks concerning land and other property, commerce and business, labor, crime, marriage, family and domestic conflicts, the church, the welfare state, constitutional law and rights, and legal pluralism. It serves as a current introduction for those new to the field and provides in-depth interpretations, discussions, and bibliographies for those already familiar with the region’s legal history. Contributors are: Diego Acosta, Alejandro Agüero, Sarah C. Chambers, Robert J. Cottrol, Oscar Cruz Barney, Mariana Dias Paes, Tamar Herzog, Marta Lorente Sariñena, M.C. Mirow, Jerome G. Offner, Brian Owensby, Juan Manuel Palacio, Agustín Parise, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Susan Elizabeth Ramírez, Timo H. Schaefer, William Suárez-Potts, Victor M. Uribe-Uran, Cristián Villalonga, Alex Wisnoski, and Eduardo Zimmermann.


Citizens without Nations

Citizens without Nations

Author: Maarten Prak

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1107104033

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Examines how urban citizenship gave many people a real stake in their own communities, even before the rise of modern democracy.


Cities From Scratch

Cities From Scratch

Author: Brodwyn Fischer

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2014-02-28

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0822377497

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This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates about the cultures of poverty. Yet shantytowns have proven both more durable and more multifaceted than any of these perspectives foresaw. Far from being accidental offshoots of more dynamic economic and political developments, they are now a permanent and integral part of Latin America's urban societies, critical to struggles over democratization, economic transformation, identity politics, and the drug and arms trades. Integrating historical, cultural, and social scientific methodologies, this collection brings together recent research from across Latin America, from the informal neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, Managua and Buenos Aires. Amid alarmist exposés, Cities from Scratch intervenes by considering Latin American shantytowns at a new level of interdisciplinary complexity. Contributors. Javier Auyero, Mariana Cavalcanti, Ratão Diniz, Emilio Duhau, Sujatha Fernandes, Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Edward Murphy, Dennis Rodgers


Iberia and the Americas [3 volumes]

Iberia and the Americas [3 volumes]

Author: John Michael Francis

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

Published: 2005-11-21

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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Students of a wide range of disciplines, as well as the lay reader, will appreciate this exhaustive survey, which traces Spanish and Portuguese influence throughout the Americas and highlights how Iberian cultures have in turn been enriched by the diverse cultures of the Americas.