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- catalog abstract ""This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire over a period of two hundred years. In a country with as small a population base and the global labor requirements of Portugal, no one was expendable, not even such marginalized figures as criminals, gypsies, orphans, and prostitutes. The author examines how the Portuguese judicial system, Overseas Council, Courts of the Inquisition, and charities coordinated their efforts to populate border cities in Portugal during the Middle Ages, and then turned to various sites in the empire as places of exile for these elements of society. In addition, he addresses the issue of gender in the state's use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries if they agreed to relocate overseas." "This work represents a new chapter in the study of exile as a punishment and the use of criminals as colonizers. It helps to explain the longevity of the Portuguese global empire as well as the growth of informal Portuguese-related communities around the world."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12439257.
- catalog coverage "Portugal Colonies Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire over a period of two hundred years. In a country with as small a population base and the global labor requirements of Portugal, no one was expendable, not even such marginalized figures as criminals, gypsies, orphans, and prostitutes. The author examines how the Portuguese judicial system, Overseas Council, Courts of the Inquisition, and charities coordinated their efforts to populate border cities in Portugal during the Middle Ages, and then turned to various sites in the empire as places of exile for these elements of society. In addition, he addresses the issue of gender in the state's use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries if they agreed to relocate overseas." "This work represents a new chapter in the study of exile as a punishment and the use of criminals as colonizers. It helps to explain the longevity of the Portuguese global empire as well as the growth of informal Portuguese-related communities around the world."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The Legal Basis of Exile as Punishment -- 2. Penal Servitude, Internal Exile, and the Beginnings of Imperial Exile -- 3. Convicts and the Imperial Reality of Exile -- 4. Convicts, Renegades, and the Military -- 5. The System Responds to Change -- 6. Single Women and the Early Modern State: Metropolitan Models -- 7. Orphans, Dowries, and Empire -- 8. Reformed Prostitutes, Nuns, and Empire.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-256) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 259 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804733597 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Portugal Colonies Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "Portugal".
- catalog spatial "Portugal.".
- catalog subject "325/.3469/0903 21".
- catalog subject "Ex-convicts Colonies Portugal.".
- catalog subject "Ex-convicts Portugal Colonies.".
- catalog subject "JV4227 .C578 2002".
- catalog subject "Orphans Colonies Portugal.".
- catalog subject "Orphans Portugal Colonies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Legal Basis of Exile as Punishment -- 2. Penal Servitude, Internal Exile, and the Beginnings of Imperial Exile -- 3. Convicts and the Imperial Reality of Exile -- 4. Convicts, Renegades, and the Military -- 5. The System Responds to Change -- 6. Single Women and the Early Modern State: Metropolitan Models -- 7. Orphans, Dowries, and Empire -- 8. Reformed Prostitutes, Nuns, and Empire.".
- catalog title "Convicts and orphans : forced and state-sponsored colonizers in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755 / Timothy J. Coates.".
- catalog type "text".