For tranquility and order
Subtitle: family and community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1800--1850
By: Laura M. Shelton.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816528073
Subjects: Families -- Mexico, North; Communities -- Mexico, North; Women -- Mexico, North -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Community, gender, and "barbarity" in early republican Sonora; title: For the sake of tranquility : marriage and consensual unions; title: Against religion and civilization : illicit relationships; title: Death, debt, and inheritance : families and the circulation of credit; title: By all laws, divine, positive, natural, and civil : reciprocity and obligation between young and old; title: Servant or son? : the negotiation of labor relations in Sonora's local.