Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire - Rilegato

Poska, Allyson M.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0826356427 ISBN 13: 9780826356420

Casa editrice: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across northern Spain to volunteer for the project and follows them across the Atlantic to Montevideo. However, before the last ships reached the Americas, harsh weather, disease, and the prospect of mutiny on the Patagonian coast forced the Crown to abandon the project. Eventually, the peasant colonists were resettled in towns outside of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where they raised families, bought slaves, and gradually integrated into colonial society.Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants' gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0826356427
• ISBN 13: 9780826356420
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 278