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Author Casas, Maria Raquél.

Title Married to a daughter of the land : Spanish-Mexican women and interethnic marriage in California, 1820-1880 / María Raquél Casas
Published Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Spanish women as cultural agents from medieval Spain to the new world frontier -- Class and marriage choices -- Marriage and the myth of romantic California -- The legal system and "a reckless breed of men" -- Interethnic marriages in the post-Mexican-American War era -- Epilogue
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-244) and index
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Subject Interethnic marriage -- California -- History -- 19th century
Mexican American women -- California -- History -- 19th century
Mexican American women -- California -- Social conditions -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
Interethnic marriage
Mexican American women
Mexican American women -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Kulturkontakt
Eheschließung
Chicana
SUBJECT California -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject California
Kalifornien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780874177145
0874177146