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Thread of Blood : Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico's Northern Frontier /

"This outstanding volume links the analysis of community and social organization with macro-level processes and history. Examines how gender, ethnicity, and local concepts of power relate to national identity, economy, and power. A fascinating discussion of Mexican society and the revolutionary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alonso, Ana María, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1995.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Frontier: Civilization and Barbarism
  • Introduction to Part 1: What Is the Frontier? 1. The Social Organization of Warfare. 2. Honor and Ethnicity. 3. Honor and Gender: Purity and Valor. 4. Honor and Class: Wealth and Occupation
  • pt. 2. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Order, Progress, and Resistance
  • Introduction to Part 2: State Formation, Hegemony, and the Construction of Subjectivities. 5. The Nation-State, Capitalist Development, and the Transformation of the Frontier. 6. The Forms and Organization of Serrano Resistance, 1858-1920. 7. Progress as Disorder and Dishonor: Discourses of Serrano Resistance, 1858-1920. 8. Caciques at Home
  • Afterword. "Ya no hay Valientes": The Re-Presentation of the Past.