Minor Omissions : Children in Latin American History and Society.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sketches of Childhood: Children in Colonial Andean Art and Society -- 2. Model Children and Models for Children in Early Mexico -- 3. Historical Perspectives on Illegitimacy and Illegitimates in Latin America -- 4. Down and Out in Havana: Foundlings in Eighteenth-Century Cuba -- 5. Minor Offenses: Youth, Crime, and Law in Eighteenth-Century Lima -- 6. The State, the Family, and Marginal Children in Latin America -- 7. The Child-Saving Movement in Brazil: Ideology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 8. How Haitian Artists Disclose Childhood of All Ages -- 9. Victims, Heroes, Enemies: Children in Central American Wars -- 10. August -- 11. Children and Contemporary Latin America -- The Children's Rebellion -- Glossary -- Contributors.

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