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The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador

The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador

Milton, Cynthia E.

Hardcover

Poverty & Social WorkSouth American History

ISBN10: 0804751781
ISBN13: 9780804751780
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Sep 7 2007
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.03 Width: 7.19 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

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.

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