Families in War and Peace

Sarah C. Chambers is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854.

"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) "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) "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) "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) “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)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Part I. Families at War1. Kin Mobilized for War: The Carrera Family Drama, 1810–1824 252. Reconquest and War to the Death: Patriot and Royalist Families Face Sanctions and Separation 623. ÉmigrÉs, Refugees, and Property Seizures: Chilean Officials in the Role of Family Providers 91Part II. Reconciling the National Family4. Constituting the Greater Chilean Family: Nation-State Formation and the Restitution of Property 1255. Protecting Soldiers' Patrimony: Expanding Pension Eligibility for Widows and Orphans 1556. Enforcing Paternal Responsibilities: Legal Disputes over Family Maintenance and Custody 182Conclusion 213Appendix: Chronology of Events in Chile 225Notes 229Bibliography 267Index  277