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Book SynopsisSarah C. Chambers examines the important role that family played in Chile's transition from colony to nation in the early eighteenth century. She shows how family members mobilized family networks for political ends, and argues that the Chilean state enacted paternalist laws to form a stable government and society.
Trade Review"This is a richly documented study, detailed in its findings and replete with narratives drawn from personal correspondence and thus closely grounded in the human side of violent conflict." -- Mark D. Szuchman * Hispanic American Historical Review *
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In Families in War and Peace, Sarah C. Chambers offers an insightful analysis of the intricate connections between the Chilean state and the family during independence and the following period.... This book is a solid work of scholarship and a welcome addition to the literature of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Latin America. -- Guiomar Duenas Vargas * American Historical Review *
"Sarah Chambers . . . has produced another excellent monograph on Spanish America’s transition from colonialism to independence and its highly conflictive process of state-building. . . . [I]t offers an unequalled examination of family law as it developed in Chile during the first half of the nineteenth century." -- Joanna Crow * Journal of Latin American Studies *
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Families in War and Peace will serve as the foundational text for studies on national family policy in Chile during the nineteenth century. The cases of political reintegration that Chambers has examined in the case of Chile have broader implications for other growing areas of scholarship, such as the transformation of property rights, the increasing use of pardons and amnesty, and the general decline in wartime confiscations in the Americas. The author has assembled an impressive collection of evidence to reconstruct the lives of numerous Chilean families struggling to survive the instability of the early nineteenth century. These stories stretch across the Atlantic world. The family secrets of the Carreras laid bare in these pages make it a fascinating book and an essential contribution to family history." -- Jesse Hingson * Journal of Family History *
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Families in War and Peace provides an intriguing, exhaustive, and analytically rigorous account of the tumult of independence and the early republican era." -- Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt * EIAL *
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Families in War and Peace represents an excellent contribution to the history of Latin America in general and the history of Chile in particular.” -- Sarah Walsh * The Latin Americanist *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I. Families at War
1. Kin Mobilized for War: The Carrera Family Drama, 1810–1824 25
2. Reconquest and War to the Death: Patriot and Royalist Families Face Sanctions and Separation 62
3. Émigrés, Refugees, and Property Seizures: Chilean Officials in the Role of Family Providers 91
Part II. Reconciling the National Family
4. Constituting the Greater Chilean Family: Nation-State Formation and the Restitution of Property 125
5. Protecting Soldiers' Patrimony: Expanding Pension Eligibility for Widows and Orphans 155
6. Enforcing Paternal Responsibilities: Legal Disputes over Family Maintenance and Custody 182
Conclusion 213
Appendix: Chronology of Events in Chile 225
Notes 229
Bibliography 267
Index 277
