This captivating study tells Mexico's best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives. Parish archives and other sources tell us human stories about the intimate decisions, hopes, aspirations, and religious commitments of Mexican men and women as they made their way through the transition from the Viceroyalty of New Spain to an independent republic. In this volume Stevens shows how Mexico assumed a new place in Atlantic history as a nation coming to grips with modernization and colonial heritage, helping us to understand the paradox of a country with a reputation for fervent Catholicism that moved so quickly to disestablish the Church.
Author(s): Donald Fithian Stevens
Series: Diálogos Series
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 328
City: Albuquerque
Book Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1. Pomp and Pageantry, Impiety and Obscenity
Chapter 2. Birthdays, Patron Saints, and Names for Newborns
Chapter 3. Pregnancy, Privacy, and Parish Priests
Chapter 4. But If You Do Not Love Him?
Chapter 5. Men Remembering Romance (and Other Reasons to Marry)
Chapter 6. Inventing Love Stories
Chapter 7. True Wedding Portraits
Chapter 8. Where Their Bodies Were Buried
Chapter 9. To Fear the Wrath of Heaven
Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Sources
Index
