{"product_id":"colonial-intimacies-9780806159041","title":"Colonial Intimacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do intimate relationships reveal, reflect, enable, or enact the social and political dimensions of imperial projects? In \u003cem\u003eColonial Intimacies,\u003c\/em\u003e Erika Pérez probes everyday relationships, encounters, and interactions to show how intimate choices about marriage, social networks, and godparentage were embedded in larger geopolitical concerns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith careful documentation, nuance, and \u003ci\u003ecorazán\u003c\/i\u003e, Erika Pérez brings fresh perspectives to the study of colonialism's reflection in the day-to-day - how gendered bonds of intimacy cut across race, ethnicity, class, and generation. In this account, indigenous women are actors in their own right, especially in their relationships with Spanish-Mexican women who were both conquerors and \u003ci\u003ecomadres\u003c\/i\u003e. A gem of historical scholarship!\"\" - Vicki L. Ruiz, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Erika Pérez tells a not-so-familiar story of how the most intimate of human relations could grease the wheels of California's successive colonialisms, grind them to a halt, or send them spinning in new directions. \u003ci\u003eColonial Intimacies\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of staggering research in a wide range of primary sources covering more than a century in the lives of Spanish-Mexican, Indigenous, and bicultural peoples. Full of sumptuous detail and insight into the most quotidian aspects of a colonial world, it interrogates fully both accommodating and resistant responses to colonialism. California history won't ever be the same.\"\" - Susan Lee Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eRoaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527744332119,"sku":"9780806159041","price":45.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780806159041.jpg?v=1731869072","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colonial-intimacies-9780806159041","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}