The Women of Colonial Latin America

The Women of Colonial Latin America
ISBN-10
1316194000
ISBN-13
9781316194003
Series
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Category
History
Language
English
Published
2015-02-16
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Susan Migden Socolow

Description

In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and adding new material on poor, rural, indigenous and slave women.

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