Gendered Crossings : Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Dialogos Series
ISBN-10
0826356435
ISBN-13
9780826356437
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Imprint
University of New Mexico Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 15th, 2016
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
444 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 2.40 cms
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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. 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.
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.
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