No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico 9780826353115, 9780826353122, 2012034767

Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a w

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No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico
9780826353115, 9780826353122, 2012034767

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