Mexicanos [[electronic resource] ] : a history of Mexicans in the United States / / Manuel G. Gonzales

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462466503321
• Autore: Gonzales Manuel G
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-280-59632-5; 9786613626158; 0-253-00777-1
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.046872
• Soggetti: Mexican Americans - History; Mexicans - United States - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Spaniards and Native Americans, prehistory-1521 -- The Spanish frontier, 1521-1821 -- The Mexican far north, 1821-1848 -- The American Southwest, 1848-1900 -- The great migration, 1900-1930 -- The depression, 1930-1940 -- The Second World War and its aftermath, 1940-1965 -- The Chicano movement, 1965-1975 -- Goodbye to Aztlán, 1975-1994 -- The Hispanic challenge, 1994-present.
• Sommario/riassunto: Newly revised and updated, Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence, Mexicans continue to play an important role in U.S. society, even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate

Female economic strategies in the modern world / / edited by Beatrice Moring

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910800040303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-317-32058-1; 1-315-65494-6; 1-317-32059-X; 1-283-85040-0; 1-78144-001-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Perspectives in economic and social history ; ; number 22
• Altri autori (Persone): MoringBeatrice
• Disciplina: 305.40903
• Soggetti: Women - History - Modern period, 1600-; Women - Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2012 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd."--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-193) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Widows, Family and Poor Relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century / Richard Wall -- Survival Strategies of Poor Women in Two Localities in Guipuzoca (Northern Spain) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Lola Valverde Lamfus -- Women, Work and Survival Strategies in Urban Northern Europe before the First World War / Beatrice Moring -- Women, Households and Independence under the Old English Poor Laws / Susannah Ottaway -- The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Century / Anne-Lise Head-König -- Mexico: Women and Poverty (1994-2004): Progresa-Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer programme / Verónica Villarespe Reyes and Ana Patricia Sosa Ferreira -- Gender and Migration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century: Gender-Differentiated Patterns and Destinies / Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga -- Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Austria: Separate Property, Usufruct and Ownership in Different Family Configurations / Margareth Lanziger.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women ; have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period. The central argument of many contributors is that, far from some accepted stereotypes, women throughout history have not been passive in dealing with their economic needs, and that older women in particular had more agency than has previously been assumed.