Intimate Frontiers,9780826319548

Intimate Frontiers

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ISBN13: 9780826319548
ISBN10: 0826319548
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary

This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags -- those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States -- Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining camps, on overland trails and sea journeys, and in San Francisco. In these settings Hurtado explores courtship, marriage, reproduction, and family life as a way to understand how men and women -- whether Native American, Anglo American, Hispanic, Chinese, or of mixed blood -- fit into or reshaped the roles and identities set by their race and gender.

Author Biography

Albert L. Hurtado is the Travis Professor of Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of award-winning studies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century California.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
List of Tables
xi
Foreword xiii
Preface xvii
Introduction: The Intimate Challenges of a Multicultural Frontier xxi
Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions: Cultural Perceptions and Historical Realities
1(20)
Customs of the Country; Mixed Marriage in Mexican California
21(24)
Crossing the Borders: Sex, Gender, and the Journey to California
45(30)
His Own Will and Pleasure: Miners, Morals, and the Crisis of the Marriage Market
75(40)
Amelia's Body: The Limits of Female Agency in Frontier California
115(14)
Intimate Frontiers
129(14)
Notes 143(24)
Index 167

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