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Author Shelton, Laura Marie, 1973-

Title For tranquility and order [electronic resource] : family and community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1800-1850 / Laura M. Shelton.

Imprint Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 206 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Families -- Mexico, North.
Communities -- Mexico, North.
Women -- Mexico, North -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0816528071
9780816528073
9780816501144 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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