Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America

takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America. Its contributors enter a vibrant new field of study in the region and challenge the conventional notion that children are invisible in the historical record. Employing diverse methods to decode a wide variety of sources, these essays present their small subjects—elite maidens, abandoned babies, Indian servants, slave apprentices—through their lives and times.