Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846 by Amy M. Porter (

Description: Their Lives, Their Wills by Amy M. Porter, Nancy E. Baker Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description ""Examines the religion, family, economics, and material culture of womens lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities in 1750-1846 through womens wills. The wills help to explain the workings of the patriarchal system in the Spanish and Mexican borderland communities"-- Publisher Description 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 arrangements, and secure her religious salvation.Wills like Estradas reveal much about womens lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities of Santa Fe, El Paso, San Antonio, Saltillo, and San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in present-day northern Mexico. Using last wills and testaments as main sources, Amy M. Porter explores the ways in which these documents reveal details about religion, family, economics, and material culture. In addition, the wills speak loudly to the difficulties of frontier life, in which widowhood and child mortality were commonplace. Most importantly, information in the wills helps to explain the workings of the patriarchal system of Spanish and Mexican borderland communities, showing that gender role divisions were fluid in some respects.Supplemented by censuses, inventories, court cases, and travellers accounts, womens wills paint a more complete picture of life in the borderlands than the previously male-dominated historiography of the region. Author Biography Amy M. Porter is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University–San Antonio, USA, where she teaches courses on early America, women, and Texas. Details ISBN 089672932X ISBN-13 9780896729322 Title Their Lives, Their Wills Author Amy M. Porter, Nancy E. Baker Format Paperback Year 2015 Pages 256 Publisher Texas Tech Press,U.S. GE_Item_ID:94687143; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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ISBN-13: 9780896729322

Book Title: Their Lives, Their Wills

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Their Lives, Their Wills : Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

Subject: Women, Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Wills, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year: 2015

Item Height: 0.7 in

Item Weight: 12.3 Oz

Type: Textbook

Author: Amy M. Porter

Subject Area: Law, Social Science, History

Item Length: 9 in

Series: Women, Gender, and the West Ser.

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback