1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465120203321

Autore

Flint Shirley Cushing

Titolo

No mere shadows [[electronic resource] ] : faces of widowhood in early colonial Mexico / / Shirley Cushing Flint

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2013

ISBN

1-299-31216-0

0-8263-5312-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

306.88/3097209031

Soggetti

Widows - Mexico - Social conditions - 16th century

Widows - Mexico - Economic conditions - 16th century

Married women - Mexico - Social conditions - 16th century

Electronic books.

Mexico Social conditions To 1810

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

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Widowhood; 2: Doña Marina Gutiérrez Flores de la Caballería Takes the Reins; 3: Doña Luisa de Estrada Challenges Escheatment of Her Encomiendas; 4: Doña Francisca de Estrada Outwits a Royal Official; 5: Doña Beatriz de Estrada Chooses Prayer; 6: Doña María de Sosa Presents Her Case to the Crown; 7: A Family of Widows in Perspective; Abbreviations Used in the Notes and References; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

"Shirley Flint explores the stories of three widows in Mexico City, giving us a glimpse at the structure of everyday life in colonial Mexico, especially the ways that women conducted business, practiced religion, and manipulated politics. Each of these widows' stories illustrates an often overlooked aspect of Spanish life in the New World"--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778162303321

Autore

Horwitz Gordon J

Titolo

Ghettostadt [[electronic resource] ] : Lódz and the making of a Nazi city / / Gordon J. Horwitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-674-03879-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Classificazione

NQ 2360

Disciplina

940.53/1853847

Soggetti

Jews - Persecutions - Poland - Łódź - History

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland - Łódź

Lódz (Poland) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Autumn 1939: conquest -- A city without Jews -- The enclosure -- The ghetto will endure -- The ghetto and the city of the future -- Banishment -- Departure, worry, and disappearance -- "Give me your children" -- Who shall live and who shall die? -- Numbered are the days.

Sommario/riassunto

Ghettostadt is the terrifying examination of the Jewish ghetto's place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it deftly maneuvers between the perspectives and actions of Lódz's beleaguered Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and administered the ghetto';s affairs, and the "ordinary" inhabitants of the once Polish city.