Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in 19th-century San Juan, Puerto Rico: Charity and Its Wards In Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico

by TeresitaMartinez-Vergne (Author)

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  1999

  $35.19

  Explores how municipal officials and the Casa de Beneficencia shaped the discourse on public and private space and thereby marginalized the worthy poor and vagrants, 'liberated' Africans, indigent and unruly women, and destitute children.