{"product_id":"transatlantic-obligations-creating-the-bonds-of-family-in-conquest-era-peru-and-spain-9780199768585","title":"Transatlantic Obligations: Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain","description":"The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, family members fulfilled obligations to one another by adapting custom to a changing world.\u003cbr\u003eFamily began to shift when, from the moment of their arrival in 1532, Spaniards were joined with elite indigenous women in political marriage-like alliances. Almost immediately, a generation of mestizos was born that challenged the hierarchies of colonial society. In response, the Spanish Crown\u003cbr\u003ebegan to promote the marriage of these men and the travel of Spanish women to Peru to promote good customs and even serve as surrogate parents. Other reactions came from wives in Spain who, abandoned by husbands, sought assistance to fulfill family duties. For indigenous families, the pressures of\u003cbr\u003ecolonialism prompted migration to cities. By mid-century, the increase of Spanish migration to Peru changed the social landscape, but did not halt mixed-race marriages. The book posits that late sixteenth-century cities, specifically Lima and Arequipa, were host to indigenous and Spanish families\u003cbr\u003ebut also to numerous 'blended' families borne of a process of mestizaje. In its final chapter, the legacies for the next generation reveal how Spanish fathers sometimes challenged law with custom and sentiment to establish inheritance plans for their children. By tracing family obligations\u003cbr\u003econnecting Peru and Spain through dowries, bequests, legal powers, and letters, \u003cem\u003eTransatlantic Obligations\u003c\/em\u003e presents a powerful call to rethink sixteenth-century definitions of family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane E. Mangan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199768585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJane E. Mangan \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Davidson College. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eTrading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí\u003c\/em\u003e and co-author of \u003cem\u003eWomen in the Iberian Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40143906734195,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7eb5199c-f0f5-4319-bce8-38b304a19808.jpg?v=1654608364","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/transatlantic-obligations-creating-the-bonds-of-family-in-conquest-era-peru-and-spain-9780199768585","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}