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Allyson M. Poska
Books by Allyson M. Poska
Maternal Judgments
Women, Children, and Smallpox Vaccination in Spain and Its Empire
Maternal Judgments examines the role of race and gender in the responses to the world’s first vaccination campaign, helmed by the Spanish Crown in the early nineteenth century.
Gendered Crossings
Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire
Winner of the Best Book Prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
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 sto...
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 sto...