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Their lives, their wills : women in the borderlands, 1750-1846 /

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 arrangeme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porter, Amy M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, [2015]
Series:Women, gender, and the West.
Subjects:
Women > Mexican-American Border Region > History > 18th century.
Women > Mexican-American Border Region > History > 19th century.
Hispanic American women > Southwest, New > Social conditions.
Women > Mexico, North > Social conditions.
Wills > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Material culture > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Patriarchy > Social aspects > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region > Religious life and customs.
Mexican-American Border Region > Economic conditions.
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico.
LAW / Wills.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.

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