For tranquility and order

Shelton, Laura Marie, 1973-

For tranquility and order family and community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1800-1850 / [electronic resource] : Laura M. Shelton. - Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2010. - xiv, 206 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Families--Mexico, North.
Communities--Mexico, North.
Women--Social conditions.--Mexico, North


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