| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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Book Review

Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820–1880. By Deena J. Gonzalez. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xx + 186 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)

Refusing the Favor focuses upon the experience of more than two thousand Spanish-Mexican women of Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 1820 through 1880. Gonzalez places particular emphasis upon the period after the 1840s, when Santa Fe was taken over by U.S.A. troops. 1

This four-chapter monograph by Deena J. Gonzalez, history professor at Pomona College, is based upon archival documents, newspaper articles, diaries, travel accounts, and court records. Each of the first three chapters has a thematic approach that highlights the lives of Manuela Baca, Juana Lopes, Maria Gertrudis Barceló (La Tules), and the widow Chaves. This particular approach reflects the author's belief that people's lives are "stories" that "are crucial to history." The fourth chapter consists of an analysis of the "new" Western American history. . . .

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