Gendered crossings : women and migration in the Spanish Empire

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Gendered crossings : women and migration in the Spanish Empire

Title remainder

women and migration in the Spanish Empire

Statement of responsibility

Allyson M. Poska

Creator

• Poska, Allyson M

Subject

• Women immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Latin America
• Women immigrants -- Latin America -- Social conditions
• Women immigrants -- Latin America -- Economic conditions
• Latin America -- Emigration and immigration | Social aspects
• Latin America -- Emigration and immigration
• Europe, Southern -- Emigration and immigration | Economic aspects

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

Member of

• Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

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Provided by Publisher

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DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Diálogos Albuquerque, N.M