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Author Shelton, Laura Marie, 1967-

Title For tranquility and order : family and community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1800-1850 / Laura M. Shelton
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Families -- Mexico, North
Communities -- Mexico, North
Women -- Mexico, North -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- General.
Communities
Families
Women -- Social conditions
North Mexico
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816501144
0816501149