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This is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal present. It thoughtfully conveys enduring themes of Mexican history while also incorporating recent advances in scholarly research on the frontier, urban life, popular culture, race and ethnicity, and gender.

Chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Nora E. Jaffary demonstrates the central role of reproduction in ideas about female sexuality and virtue, the development of modern Mexico, and the growth of modern medicine in the Latin American context.

A comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from pre-Columbian Mexico to the neoliberal present.

Presents a history of popular religion, race, and gender in colonial Mexico focusing on questions of spiritual and social rebellion and conformity. This work examines more than one hundred trials of "false mystics" whom the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.