Searching for Madre Matiana : prophecy and popular culture in modern Mexico /

"In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the time proclaimed that decades earlier a humble laywoman foresaw the nation's calamitous destiny--foreign invasion, widespread misery, and chronic civil strife....

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Main Author: Wright-Rios, Edward N. 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
Edition:First [edition].
Series:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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