Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856

by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Book Overview

History is not just about great personalities, wars, and revolutions; it is also about the subtle aspects of more ordinary matters. On a day-to-day basis the aspects of life that most preoccupied people in late eighteenth- through mid nineteenth-century Mexico were not the political machinations of generals or politicians but whether they themselves could make a living, whether others accorded them the respect they deserved, whether they were safe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803238339
• ISBN13: 9780803238336
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"