From the "afflicted poor" to the "vicious lazy": conceptions of poverty in Buenos Aires (1700-1810)
The aim of this paper is to analyze the conceptions of poverty that circulated among the elites of Buenos Aires through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At first the privileged groups of the city collected the tradition of Ius Commune to qualify certain groups of the lower classes as m...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad Nacional de La Plata
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina |
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| Online Access: | http://www.anuarioiha.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/6261 |
| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to analyze the conceptions of poverty that circulated among the elites of Buenos Aires through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At first the privileged groups of the city collected the tradition of Ius Commune to qualify certain groups of the lower classes as miserables worthy of charity. But in the last decades of the colonial rule, there was a different reception of new speeches among royal authorities, council elite and intellectuals, and appeared the suspicion that among the dispossessed there was fertile ground for laziness and reluctance to work. So new projects and courses of action took place. |
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| ISSN: | 1668-950X 2314-257X |