The many meanings of poverty colonialism, social compacts, and assistance in eighteenth-century Ecuador
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Stanford, Calif.
Stanford Univ. Press
2007
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-347) and index 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, 1783-1800 -- The erosion of charity, boundaries, and colonial compacts |
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Beschreibung: | XXI, 356 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm |