Children of the Father King : youth, authority, & legal minority in colonial Lima /

Patriarchal law from Spain to the New World.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Premo, Bianca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Writing a history of Father Kings and colonial minors
  • A short history of minority in colonial Lima
  • Between the written and the real: child rearing and adult authority, 1650-1750
  • Whether son or stranger: institutions for child rearing
  • Minor offenses: youth and crime in the eighteenth century
  • The colonial child reborn: reform and enlightenment in the late colonial period
  • The new politics of the child in the late colonial courts
  • The new politics of the slave child in the late colonial courts
  • Conclusion. Strange ties and interior fears.