{"product_id":"the-many-meanings-of-poverty-cynthia-e-milton-9780804751780","title":"The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Many Meanings of Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia E. Milton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804751781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804751780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 7.19w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 94","brand":"Cynthia E. Milton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059761213695,"sku":"9780804751780","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_824f3e80-1ac3-432d-a5ec-289caf63f6b8.jpg?v=1685060175","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-many-meanings-of-poverty-cynthia-e-milton-9780804751780","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}