The Case of the Ugly Suitor

The Case of the Ugly Suitor

Author: Jeffrey M. Shumway

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780803293267

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"In the courtrooms of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, children battled parents in order to fulfill their romantic desires and marry the mate of their choice. Parents and guardians also struggled for custody of young children: some did this out of love, while others were greedy for child labor. In courtrooms and elsewhere, women challenged their traditional status as social and intellectual inferiors. Though all these struggles existed in earlier times, the nineteenth century injected a new dynamic into such conflicts: Argentina's revolution against Spain and the subsequent attempts by political and intellectual leaders to craft a new nation out of the vestiges of Spanish colonialism."--BOOK JACKET.


Runaway Daughters

Runaway Daughters

Author: Kathryn A. Sloan

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 082634478X

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Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico. Unlike the colonial era where paternal rule was absolute, Sloan found that the state began to usurp parental authority in the home with the introduction of liberal reform laws. As these laws began to shape the terms of civil marriage, the courtroom played a more significant role in the resolution of familial power struggles and the restoration of family honor in rapto cases. Youths could now exert a measure of independence by asserting their rights to marry whom they wished. In examining these growing rifts between the liberal state and familial order within its lower order citizens, Sloan highlights the role that youths and the working class played in refashioning systems of marriage, honor, sexuality, parental authority, and filial obedience.


Gendered Crossings

Gendered Crossings

Author: Allyson M. Poska

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0826356435

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Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants' gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.


Girlhood

Girlhood

Author: Jennifer Helgren

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0813547040

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Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.


State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 1

State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 1

Author: Miguel A. Centeno

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-29

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1107029864

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This book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The chapters tell how these countries went about constructing systems of authority that could manage their territories, support economic development, provide basic services, and promote a sense of national community. The book can serve as an introduction to nineteenth-century Latin America and Spain, as a historical guide to the process of state building, and as a tool for experts looking for the latest work by leading scholars in the field.


A Woman, a Man, a Nation

A Woman, a Man, a Nation

Author: Jeffrey M. Shumway

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0826360912

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In 1837 Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Leaving was especially hard because Mariquita felt that she had played an influential role in transforming Buenos Aires from a Spanish colonial outpost into a brilliant capital in a world of republics. Juan Manuel de Rosas’s version of order alienated Mariquita, who chose self-imposed exile in Montevideo over living under Rosas’s stifling rule. The struggle went on for nearly two decades until Mariquita finally came home for good in 1852 while Rosas went into exile. Mariquita’s and Juan Manuel’s lives corresponded with the major events and processes that shaped the turbulent beginnings of the Argentine nation, many of which also shaped Latin America and the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution (1750–1850). Their lives provide an overarching narrative for Argentine history that both scholars and students will find intriguing.


From Man to Ape

From Man to Ape

Author: Adriana Novoa

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-12

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0226596168

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The authors here offer a history and interpretation of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, illuminating the ways culture shapes scientific enterprise. They reveal new ways of understanding Latin American science and its impact on the scientific communities of Europe and North America.


Mexico, 1848-1853

Mexico, 1848-1853

Author: Pedro Santoni

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1134844719

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Historians have paid scant attention to the five years that span from the conclusion early in 1848 of Mexico’s disastrous conflict with the United States to the final return to power in April 1853 of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. This volume presents a more thorough understanding of this pivotal time, and the issues and experiences that then affected Mexicans. It sheds light on how elite politics, church-state relations, institutional affairs, and peasant revolts played a crucial role in Mexico’s long-term historical development, and also explores topics like marriage and everyday life, and the public trials and executions staged in the aftermath of the war with the U.S.


Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas

Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas

Author: Evan C. Rothera

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2022-09-21

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 080717842X

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In the latter half of the nineteenth century, three violent national conflicts rocked the Americas: the Wars of Unification in Argentina, the War of the Reform and French Intervention in Mexico, and the Civil War in the United States. The recovery efforts that followed reshaped the Western Hemisphere. In Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas, Evan C. Rothera uses both transnational and comparative methodologies to highlight similarities and differences among the wars and reconstructions in the US, Mexico, and Argentina. In doing so, he uncovers a new history that stresses the degree to which cooperation and collaboration, rather than antagonism and discord, characterized the relationships among the three countries. This study serves as a unique assessment of a crucial period in the history of the Americas and speaks to the perpetual battle between visions of international partnership and isolation.


Latin American History at the Movies

Latin American History at the Movies

Author: Donald F. Stevens

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-08-12

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1538152479

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Movies are meant to be entertaining, but they can also be educational. People are naturally curious to know how much of what they see on their screens might be historically true. In Latin American History at the Movies, experts on Latin America focus on five centuries of history as portrayed in feature films. An introduction on the visual presentation of the past in movies sets the stage for essays that explore sixteen of the best feature films on Latin America made from the 1980s to the present.