"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

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Of Love & Loathing: Marital Life, Strife, And Intimacy In The Colonial Andes, 1750-1825 Of Love And Loathing

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Nicholas A. Robins

Bison Books

United States, United States of America

Dec 01, 2015

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PT, 2015

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Source title: Of Love and Loathing: Marital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750-1825

Title Page, Copyright 2
Contents 8
Acknowledgments 10
Introduction 14
1. ¬タワCrimes of Sensuality¬タン: Morality versus Affinity 32
2. The ¬タワOwner of Her Will¬タン: Pragmᅢᄀtica and Patriarchy 68
3. ¬タワWithout Excuse nor Reply¬タン: Moral Imperatives 114
4. The ¬タワExecutioner of My Innocence¬タン: Domestic Violence and Rape 132
5. ¬タワThe Most Bitter Life One Can Conceive¬タン: Dilatory Divorces 160
Conclusion 186
Notes 200
Glossary 238
Bibliography 242
Index 282
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press,Published:2015,ISBN:9780803284524,Related ISBN:9780803277199,Language:English,OCLC:925522627
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. 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.

Examines the application of late-colonial Bourbon policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy. Drawing on archival sources, Nicholas A. 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.

"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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