Teresita Martinez-Vergne, Teresita Martnez-Vergne

Shaping the Discourse on Space

Charity and Its Wards in 19th-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How municipal officials and the Casa de Beneficencia shaped the discourse on public and private space and thereby marginalized the worthy poor and vagrants, "liberated" Africans, indigent and unruly women, and destitute children.

Produktdetails

• University of Texas Press
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780292752214
• ISBN-10: 0292752210
• Artikelnr.: 26466156

Autorenporträt

A native of Puerto Rico, Teresita Martínez-Vergne was Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations and Tables
* Preface
* 1. The Discourse on Space in Nineteenth-century Puerto Rico
* 2. The Deployment of Beneficencia in San Juan: Vagrants and the
Worthy Poor
* 3. The Regulation of Time and Space: "Liberated" Africans at
Midcentury
* 4. The Control over Bodies: Women as "Other"
* 5. The Manipulation of the Mind: Children at Century's End
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index