| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Bianca Premo. Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 350. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.
From its original analytical thrust dealing with the demographic turn and changes within household composition, family history has weaved increasingly sophisticated connections between the domestic sphere and the worlds beyond it. Bianca Premo's study of children in colonial Lima is a fine and important example of such connections: it looks at childhood as a device for understanding the changing nature and scope of colonial power and the nexus between the local social order and the crown as the ultimate source of legitimacy.	1
Threading through Premo's work is the notion that child-rearing was an inherently political process; that is, Lima's children were participants in social reproduction and the transmission and reconstitution of political and cultural norms. In this regard, Premo joins the company of historians of the Latin American family who are keen on recognizing the political nexus inherent in parenting. As the crown engaged in judicial and social innovations in the eighteenth century that would have a direct impact on children, the presumed obviousness of the traditional idea accepted by most parents—that the main responsibility of rearing their children rested with them—underwent questioning. The discomfort occasioned by this new political turn of parental construct was especially, but not exclusively, felt by fathers.	. . .

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