Life in Mexico / / Frances Calderón de la Barca ; [introduction by Woodrow Borah]
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| Autore: |
Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis), <1804?-1882.>
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| Titolo: |
Life in Mexico / / Frances Calderón de la Barca ; [introduction by Woodrow Borah]
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1982 |
| Edizione: | 1st Calif. ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (557 pages) : maps, music |
| Disciplina: | 972.08/1 |
| Soggetto topico: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexico Description and travel |
| Mexico 19th century Social life and customs | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 1840s |
| 19th century | |
| america authors | |
| catholic church | |
| catholicism | |
| correspondence | |
| cuernavaca | |
| diplomacy | |
| diplomat | |
| government change | |
| hidalgo | |
| history | |
| letters | |
| marriage | |
| mexican history | |
| mexican independence | |
| mexico city | |
| mexico | |
| michoacan | |
| political change | |
| politics | |
| poor country | |
| rebellion | |
| religion and politics | |
| religion | |
| revolution | |
| scottish authors | |
| silver mines | |
| spain | |
| texas | |
| travel writing | |
| travelogue | |
| unstable government | |
| upper class | |
| war | |
| wealth gap | |
| women authors | |
| women in history | |
| womens lives | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Letters 1-8: October to December, 1839 -- Letters 8-23: January to June, 1840 -- Letters 23-30: July to December, 1840 -- Letters 30-41: January to June, 1841 -- Letters 41-51: July to December, 1841 -- Letters 52-54: January to April, 1842 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico-from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help-Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Life in Mexico |
| ISBN: | 1-282-35520-1 |
| 9786612355202 | |
| 0-520-90701-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777939503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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