The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Ei

Description: The Many Meanings of Poverty by Cynthia E. Milton 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book analyzes the diverse understandings of poverty in a multiracial colonial society, eighteenth-century Quito. It shows that in a colonial world both a pauper and a landowner could lay claim to assistance as the "deserving poor" while the vast majority of the impoverished Andean population did not share the same avenues of poor relief. The Many Meanings of Poverty asks how colonialism shaped arguments about poverty-such as the categories of "deserving" and "undeserving" poor-in multiracial Quito, and forwards three central observations: poverty as a social construct (based on gender, age, and ethnoracial categories); the importance of these arguments in the creation of governing legitimacy; and the presence of the "social" and "economic" poor. An examination of poverty illustrates changing social and religious attitudes and practices towards poverty and the evolution of the colonial state during the eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms. Author Biography Cynthia E. Milton is Canada Research Chair in Latin American History at the Université de Montréal. She is coeditor of The Art of Truthtelling about Authoritarian Rule (2005) Table of Contents @fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Illustrations000 Acknowledgments000 Preface000 @toc2:IntroductionColonialism, Social Compacts, and the Taxonomy of Poverty1 @toc1:Part OneThe City and People of Quito @toc2:1. The City of Quito000 2. Living on the Edge: Survival Strategies of the Urban Poor000 @toc1:Part TwoSociety of Compacts: The Social Poor @toc2:3. Defining the "Solemn Poor": Wordplay and Petitions of Poverty in Colonial Quito, 16781782000 4. Prostrate before the Feet of the King: Widows, Widowhood, Pensions, and Colonial Compacts000 @toc1:Part ThreeSociety of Compacts: The Economic Poor @toc2:5. Children on the Fringe of Empire: The Limits and Uses of Juvenile Welfare000 6. Putting the Colonial (Poor) House in Order: The Wretched Poor and the Bourbon State000 @toc1:Part FourWhen Societies Meet: The Blurring of Social Compacts @toc2:7. Shifting Compacts of the Traditional Poor: Widows as Viudas and as Pobres000 8. The Broadening and Narrowing of the Solemn Poor: Poor Spaniards, the Wretched, and Collapsing Privileges, 17831800000 ConclusionThe Erosion of Charity, Boundaries, and Colonial Compacts000 @toc4:Appendix000 Glossary000 Notes000 Bibliography000 Index000 Review "The reach and ramifications of this book are broad. It is one of several new works that assess the social impact of the Bourbon reforms, and, by opening the doors to Quitos poor house, it contributes to reinvigorated institutional histories of Latin America... To write a history of poverty in colonial Spanish America is a truly ambitious endeavor. The Many Meanings of Poverty is a valiant attempt at this monumental task, and the only word to describe many of its findings is: rich." - Bianca Premo, Florida International University, Eighteenth-Century Studies "Cynthia E. Miltons book ... adds an additional layer of explanation to Egass interpretation of who comprised the truly poor. In a richly detailed and throughly researched scrutiny of the various faces of poverty in late colonial Quito, Milton examines how society drew distinctions between the deserving and not-so-deserving poor." - March Becker, H-Net Reviews "This makes Quito, I think, the ideal setting for Cynthia Miltons welcome exploration of what poverty meant in late colonial Spanish America The Many Meanings of Poverty is clearly a major contribution to the historiography of colonial Ecuador, which after years of neglect has attracted innovative work in areas such as gender, law, and demography." - The Journal of Latin American Studies Long Description This book analyzes the diverse understandings of poverty in a multiracial colonial society, eighteenth-century Quito. It shows that in a colonial world both a pauper and a landowner could lay claim to assistance as the "deserving poor" while the vast majority of the impoverished Andean population did not share the same avenues of poor relief. The Many Meanings of Poverty asks how colonialism shaped arguments about poverty--such as the categories of "deserving" and "undeserving" poor--in multiracial Quito, and forwards three central observations: poverty as a social construct (based on gender, age, and ethnoracial categories); the importance of these arguments in the creation of governing legitimacy; and the presence of the "social" and "economic" poor. An examination of poverty illustrates changing social and religious attitudes and practices towards poverty and the evolution of the colonial state during the eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms. Review Quote "This makes Quito, I think, the ideal setting for Cynthia Miltons welcome exploration of what poverty meant in late colonial Spanish America The Many Meanings of Poverty is clearly a major contribution to the historiography of colonial Ecuador, which after years of neglect has attracted innovative work in areas such as gender, law, and demography." Details ISBN0804751781 Author Cynthia E. Milton Short Title MANY MEANINGS OF POVERTY Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 0804751781 ISBN-13 9780804751780 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2007 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780804751780 UK Release Date 2007-09-07 AU Release Date 2007-09-07 NZ Release Date 2007-09-07 US Release Date 2007-09-07 Pages 384 Publication Date 2007-09-07 DEWEY 362.509866/13 Audience Undergraduate Illustrations 14 tables, 4 figures, 10 illustrations, 3 maps We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159414480;

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