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Married To A Daughter Of The Land

Spanish-Mexican Women And Interethnic Marriage In California, 1820-80

By: Maria Raquel Casas

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Married To A Daughter Of The Land

Spanish-Mexican Women And Interethnic Marriage In California, 1820-80

By: Maria Raquel Casas

The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California. Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Now, historian María Raquél Casas examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. She finds that, far from being pawns in a male-dominated society, Californianas of all classes were often active and determined creators of their own destinies, finding ways to choose their mates, to leave unsatisfactory marriages, and to maintain themselves economically. Using a wide range of sources in English and Spanish, Casas unveils a picture of women’s lives in these critical decades of California’s history. She shows how many Spanish-Mexican women negotiated the precarious boundaries of gender and race to choose Euro-American husbands, and what this intermarriage meant to the individuals involved and to the larger multiracial society evolving from California’s rich Hispanic and Indian past. Casas’s discussion ranges from California’s burgeoning economy to the intimacies of private households and ethnically mixed families. Here we discover the actions of real women of all classes as they shaped their own identities. Married to a Daughter of the Land is a significant and fascinating contribution to the history of women in the American West and to our understanding of the complex role of gender, race, and class in the Borderlands of the Southwest.

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297

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University of Nevada Press

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0874177146

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9780874177145

Repase y escriba, Workbook

Curso avanzado de gramatica y composicion

By: Maria Canteli Dominicis,John J. Reynolds

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Repase y escriba, Workbook

Curso avanzado de gramatica y composicion

By: Maria Canteli Dominicis,John J. Reynolds

This perennial best-seller is written for Advanced Grammar and Composition or Advanced Composition and Conversation classes. Repase y escriba combines solid grammar coverage with contemporary readings from a variety of sources, including literature, magazines, and newspapers. Readings are preceded by a short passage introducing the author and the context and is followed by vocabulary, comprehension questions and conversation prompts. The Sección léxica teaches readers proverbs, idioms, and word families. There are also topics for creative compositions with guidelines. With updated literary and cultural readings, Repase y Escriba includes an "oral exchange," to make the text more useful when stressing conversation.

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529

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470909250

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9780470909256

The Syntax of Portuguese

By: Mary A. Kato,Ana Maria Martins,Jairo Nunes

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The Syntax of Portuguese

By: Mary A. Kato,Ana Maria Martins,Jairo Nunes

A comprehensive look at the syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese such as their pronominal and agreement systems, null subjects, null complements and word order. It is essential reading for researchers and students of Portuguese language, Romance linguistics and theoretical syntax.

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Cambridge University Press

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052186061X

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9780521860611

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Married To A Daughter Of The Land

Married To A Daughter Of The Land

Repase y escriba, Workbook

Repase y escriba, Workbook

The Syntax of Portuguese

The Syntax of Portuguese

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