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For tranquility and order : family and community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1800-1850 / Laura M. Shelton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shelton, Laura Marie, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Mexico, North.
- Families.
- Communities--Mexico, North.
- Communities.
- Women--Mexico, North--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- North Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Community, gender, and "barbarity" in early republican Sonora
- For the sake of tranquility : marriage and consensual unions
- Against religion and civilization : illicit relationships
- Death, debt, and inheritance : families and the circulation of credit
- By all laws, divine, positive, natural, and civil : reciprocity and obligation between young and old
- Servant or son? : the negotiation of labor relations in Sonora's local courts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816528073
- 0816528071
- OCLC:
- 460061510
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