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For Tranquility and Order: Family and Community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 18001850
Laura M. Shelton
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Description for For Tranquility and Order: Family and Community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 18001850
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 b/w photographs, 10 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
On Mexico's northwestern frontier, judicial conflicts unfolded against a backdrop of armed resistance and ethnic violence. In the face of Apache raids in the north and Yaqui and Mayo revolts in the south, domestic disputes involving children, wives, and servants were easily conflated with ethnic rebellion and ""barbarous"" threats. A wife's adulterous liaison, a daughter's elopement, or a nephew's enraged assault shook the very foundation of what it meant to be civilized at a time when communities saw themselves under siege. Laura Shelton has plumbed the legal archives of early Sonora to reveal the extent to which both court ... Read more
On Mexico's northwestern frontier, judicial conflicts unfolded against a backdrop of armed resistance and ethnic violence. In the face of Apache raids in the north and Yaqui and Mayo revolts in the south, domestic disputes involving children, wives, and servants were easily conflated with ethnic rebellion and ""barbarous"" threats. A wife's adulterous liaison, a daughter's elopement, or a nephew's enraged assault shook the very foundation of what it meant to be civilized at a time when communities saw themselves under siege. Laura Shelton has plumbed the legal archives of early Sonora to reveal the extent to which both court ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816528073
SKU
V9780816528073
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