| Description |
xxi, 356 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Ecuador -- Quito -- History -- 18th century.
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Poverty. |
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Ecuador -- Quito. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Poor -- Ecuador -- Quito -- History -- 18th century.
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Poor. |
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Economic assistance, Domestic -- Ecuador -- Quito -- History -- 18th century.
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Economic assistance, Domestic. |
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Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- History -- 18th century.
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Indians of South America. |
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Ecuador. |
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Ecuador -- History -- To 1809.
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| Chronological Term |
To 1809 |
| ISBN |
9780804751780 cloth alkaline paper |
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0804751781 cloth alkaline paper |
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