The Heart in the Glass Jar: Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico
(Part of the The Mexican Experience Series)
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The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man's literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and letters--as both symbols and material objects--of northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s.
William E. French's innovative study of courtship practice and family formation examines love letters of everyday folk within the framework of literacy...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0803266782
ISBN13:9780803266780
Release Date:July 2015
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:316 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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