The Intimate Frontier: Friendship and Civil Society in Northern New Spain

by Ignacio Martínez

Book Overview

For millennia friendships have framed the most intimate and public contours of our everyday lives. In this book, Ignacio Mart nez tells the multilayered story of how the ideals, logic, rhetoric, and emotions of friendship helped structure an early yet remarkably nuanced, fragile, and sporadic form of civil society (societas civilis) at the furthest edges of the Spanish Empire.

Spaniards living in the isolated borderlands region of colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081655529X
• ISBN13: 9780816555291
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"