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"
Isabel dos Guimar??es S??, history, Universidade de Minho,
Portugal
Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof, Latin American history and director of the
Center of Latin American Studies, University of Kansas
Jorge Rojas Flores, history and social sciences, Universidad de
Talca and Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales, Chile
Laura Shelton, history, Georgia Southern University
Valentina Tikoff, history, DePaul University, Chicago
Ann Twinam, history, University of Texas, Austin
Teresa Vergara, history Ph.D. student, University of Connecticut at
Storrs
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