Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire by Allyson M. Poska

Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire

Allyson M. Poska

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Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across norther...

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