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Their Lives, Their Wills
Amy M. Porter
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Paperback. ""Examines the religion, family, economics, and material culture of women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities in 1750-1846 through women's wills. The wills help to explain the workings of the patriarchal system in the Spanish and Mexican borderland communities"-- Series: Women, Gender, and the West. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 331.
In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Béxar, a dying widow named María Concepción de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make requests for her funeral arrangements, and secure her religious salvation.
Wills like Estrada’s reveal much about women’s lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities of Santa Fe, El Paso, San Antonio, Saltillo, and San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in present-day northern Mexico. Using last wills and testaments as main sources, Amy M. ... Read more
In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Béxar, a dying widow named María Concepción de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make requests for her funeral arrangements, and secure her religious salvation.
Wills like Estrada’s reveal much about women’s lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities of Santa Fe, El Paso, San Antonio, Saltillo, and San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in present-day northern Mexico. Using last wills and testaments as main sources, Amy M. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Women, Gender, and the West
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896729322
SKU
V9780896729322
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About Amy M. Porter
Amy M. Porter is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University–San Antonio, USA, where she teaches courses on early America, women, and Texas.
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