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Gendered crossings : women and migration in the Spanish Empire, Allyson M. Poska

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Patagonia was never hospitable to European settlement, but between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown sent more than 1,900 peasants there in a disastrous attempt to colonize the remote South American coast. The narrative begins in the Old World, tracing the colonists' journey to the port at La Coruña. There they received food, housing, and medical care as they waited for ships to take them across the Atlantic to Montevideo, a journey that included horrific storms and at leas one encounter with English corsairs. A few peasants settled temporarily at the Patagonian outposts of Fuerte del Carmen and Floridablanca. But before the last ships reached the Americas, the Crown abandoned the project owing to financial problems, disease, harsh weather, and the prospect of mutiny. The peasant colonists were resettled in new towns outside of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where they raised families, bough slaves, and gradually became integrated into colonial society. At every stage, their gendered experiences were informed by their contacts with other settlers, Indians, and Africans, as well as conservative Bourbon social policies and the complications of frontier life
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xi, 278 pages
Contents
  • Rethinking empire: gender, enlightenment, and the Patagonia project
  • "It will be very advantageous to have some families": gender and the recruitment of the colonists
  • Women and children at port
  • Women, children, and the transatlantic voyage
  • "A nursery of vices": masculine crisis in Patagonia
  • Gendered lives at the edges of empire
  • Far from Patagonia: gender on the Spanish frontier
  • From peasants to slave owners, from colonists to Vecinos
Isbn
9780826356437
Instance
Label
Gendered crossings : women and migration in the Spanish Empire
Title
Gendered crossings
Title remainder
women and migration in the Spanish Empire
Statement of responsibility
Allyson M. Poska
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Patagonia was never hospitable to European settlement, but between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown sent more than 1,900 peasants there in a disastrous attempt to colonize the remote South American coast. The narrative begins in the Old World, tracing the colonists' journey to the port at La Coruña. There they received food, housing, and medical care as they waited for ships to take them across the Atlantic to Montevideo, a journey that included horrific storms and at leas one encounter with English corsairs. A few peasants settled temporarily at the Patagonian outposts of Fuerte del Carmen and Floridablanca. But before the last ships reached the Americas, the Crown abandoned the project owing to financial problems, disease, harsh weather, and the prospect of mutiny. The peasant colonists were resettled in new towns outside of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where they raised families, bough slaves, and gradually became integrated into colonial society. At every stage, their gendered experiences were informed by their contacts with other settlers, Indians, and Africans, as well as conservative Bourbon social policies and the complications of frontier life
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Poska, Allyson M
Dewey number
304.8082/09171246
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
JV6347
LC item number
.P67 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
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  • Women immigrants
  • Women immigrants
  • Women immigrants
  • Latin America
  • Latin America
  • Europe, Southern
  • Women immigrants / Latin America / Social conditions
  • Women immigrants / Latin America / Economic conditions
  • Women immigrants / Cultural assimilation / Latin America
  • Spanierin
  • Einwanderung
  • Bäuerin
  • Latin America / Emigration and immigration
  • Latin America / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects
  • Europe, Southern / Emigration and immigration / Economic aspects
  • Argentinien
Label
Gendered crossings : women and migration in the Spanish Empire, Allyson M. Poska
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Rethinking empire: gender, enlightenment, and the Patagonia project -- "It will be very advantageous to have some families": gender and the recruitment of the colonists -- Women and children at port -- Women, children, and the transatlantic voyage -- "A nursery of vices": masculine crisis in Patagonia -- Gendered lives at the edges of empire -- Far from Patagonia: gender on the Spanish frontier -- From peasants to slave owners, from colonists to Vecinos
Control code
919252569
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xi, 278 pages
Isbn
9780826356437
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2015016156
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40025856776
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)919252569
Label
Gendered crossings : women and migration in the Spanish Empire, Allyson M. Poska
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Rethinking empire: gender, enlightenment, and the Patagonia project -- "It will be very advantageous to have some families": gender and the recruitment of the colonists -- Women and children at port -- Women, children, and the transatlantic voyage -- "A nursery of vices": masculine crisis in Patagonia -- Gendered lives at the edges of empire -- Far from Patagonia: gender on the Spanish frontier -- From peasants to slave owners, from colonists to Vecinos
Control code
919252569
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xi, 278 pages
Isbn
9780826356437
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2015016156
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40025856776
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)919252569

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