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Author Robins, Nicholas A., 1964- author.

Title Of love and loathing : marital life, strife, and intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750-1825 / Nicholas A. Robins.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
©2015

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Summary "Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its colonial enterprise was built to maintain control over a vast region that today encompasses Bolivia and parts of Peru, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina. Intimacy became a fulcrum of social control contested by individuals, families, the state, and the Catholic Church, and deeply personal emotions and experiences were unwillingly transformed into social, political, and moral challenges. In Of Love and Loathing, Nicholas A. Robins examines the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy. Drawing on archival sources, Robins examines how such policies and the means by which they were enforced highlight the moral, racial, and patriarchal ideals of the time, and, more important, the degree to which the policies were evaded. Not only did free unions, illegitimate children, and de facto divorces abound, but women also had significantly more agency regarding resources, relationships, and movement than has previously been recognized. A surprising image of society emerges from Robins's analysis, one with considerably more moral latitude than can be found from the perspectives of religious doctrine and regal edicts"-- Provided by publisher.
"An examination of the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage and intimacy, their effects on people's lives, and how they resisted them to create, and break, intimate bonds in colonial Charcas"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Marriage -- Bolivia -- Charcas -- History -- 18th century.
Marriage.
Bolivia -- Charcas.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Domestic relations -- Bolivia -- Charcas -- History -- 18th century.
Domestic relations.
Sucre (Bolivia) -- History -- 18th century.
Charcas (Audiencia) -- History -- 18th century.
Sucre (Bolivia) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Charcas (Audiencia) -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration -- History -- 18th century.
Spain.
Colonies.
America.
Administration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Marriage.
Other Form: Print version: Robins, Nicholas A., 1964- Of love & loathing. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015] (DLC) 2015013579 (OCoLC)907651270
ISBN 9780803284524 (electronic book)
0803284527 (electronic book)
9780803277199
0803277199
9780803284500 (epub)
9780803284517 (mobi)
0803284500
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