Cynthia E Milton Poverty Book sku-6106570 462835907532

Cynthia E Milton's The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador is a hardcover listed under Latin American History Books. It examines how people understood poverty in multiracial colonial Quito. A pauper or a landowner could claim assistance as the "deserving poor," while most impoverished Andean people lacked the same access to relief.

The book considers how colonialism shaped the categories of "deserving" and "undeserving" poor. It discusses poverty as a social construct shaped by gender, age and ethnoracial categories; the role of arguments about poverty in establishing governing legitimacy; and distinctions between the "social" and "economic" poor.

It also traces changing social and religious attitudes and practices, along with the colonial state's evolution during the Bourbon reforms. SKU: sku-6106570. UPC: 462835907532.