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Of love and loathing : marital life, strife, and intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750-1825 / Nicholas A. Robins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803284524
  • 0803284527
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Of love & loathing.DDC classification:
  • 306.810984/09033 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ591 .R63 2015eb
Other classification:
  • HIS033000
  • HIS033000.
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Crimes of Sensuality: Morality versus Affinity -- 2. The Owner of Her Will: Pragm�atica and Patriarchy -- 3. Without Excuse nor Repl: Moral Imperatives -- 4. The Executioner of My Innocence: Domestic Violence and Rape -- 5. The Most Bitter Life One Can Conceive: Dilatory Divorces -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its colonial enterprise was built to maintain control over a vast region that today encompasses Bolivia and parts of Peru, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina. Intimacy became a fulcrum of social control contested by individuals, families, the state, and the Catholic Church, and deeply personal emotions and experiences were unwillingly transformed into social, political, and moral challenges. In Of Love and Loathing, Nicholas A. Robins examines the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy. Drawing on archival sources, Robins examines how such policies and the means by which they were enforced highlight the moral, racial, and patriarchal ideals of the time, and, more important, the degree to which the policies were evaded. Not only did free unions, illegitimate children, and de facto divorces abound, but women also had significantly more agency regarding resources, relationships, and movement than has previously been recognized. A surprising image of society emerges from Robins's analysis, one with considerably more moral latitude than can be found from the perspectives of religious doctrine and regal edicts"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "An examination of the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage and intimacy, their effects on people's lives, and how they resisted them to create, and break, intimate bonds in colonial Charcas"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its colonial enterprise was built to maintain control over a vast region that today encompasses Bolivia and parts of Peru, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina. Intimacy became a fulcrum of social control contested by individuals, families, the state, and the Catholic Church, and deeply personal emotions and experiences were unwillingly transformed into social, political, and moral challenges. In Of Love and Loathing, Nicholas A. Robins examines the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy. Drawing on archival sources, Robins examines how such policies and the means by which they were enforced highlight the moral, racial, and patriarchal ideals of the time, and, more important, the degree to which the policies were evaded. Not only did free unions, illegitimate children, and de facto divorces abound, but women also had significantly more agency regarding resources, relationships, and movement than has previously been recognized. A surprising image of society emerges from Robins's analysis, one with considerably more moral latitude than can be found from the perspectives of religious doctrine and regal edicts"-- Provided by publisher.

"An examination of the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage and intimacy, their effects on people's lives, and how they resisted them to create, and break, intimate bonds in colonial Charcas"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Introduction -- 1. Crimes of Sensuality: Morality versus Affinity -- 2. The Owner of Her Will: Pragm�atica and Patriarchy -- 3. Without Excuse nor Repl: Moral Imperatives -- 4. The Executioner of My Innocence: Domestic Violence and Rape -- 5. The Most Bitter Life One Can Conceive: Dilatory Divorces -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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