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This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire over a period of two hundred years. In a country with as small a population base and the global labor requirements of Portugal, no one was expendable, not even such marginal figures as criminals, gypsies, orphans, and prostitutes. The author examines how the Portuguese judicial system, Overseas Council, Courts of the Inquisition, and charities coordinated their efforts to populate border cities in Portugal during the Middle Ages, and then turned to various sites in the empire as places of exile for these elements of society. In addition, he addresses the issue of gender in the state s use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries if they agreed to relocate overseas. We are well acquainted with this system as it was used by the British in Australia in the nineteenth century, and much work has been done on similar efforts by other imperial powers, such as France, Spain, Russia, and China, to populate remote regions of their empires. However, this is the first study of the much earlier Portuguese case, and it provides a significant link between the medieval and modern applications of penal exile.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History Regional & national history

• Pełny tytuł: Convicts and Orphans
• Autor: Timothy J. Coates
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 288
• EAN: 9780804733595
• ISBN: 0804733597
• ID: 04716833
• Wydawca: Stanford University Press
• Waga: 516 g
• Wymiary: 159 × 234 × 27 mm
• Data wydania: 11. February 2002

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