Download or read book Negotiating Conquest written by Miroslava Chávez-García and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examines the ways in which Mexican and Native women challenged the patriarchal traditional culture of the Spanish, Mexican, and early American eras in California, tracing the shifting contingencies surrounding their lives from the imposition of Spanish Catholic colonial rule in the 1770s to the ascendancy of Euro-American Protestant capitalistic society in the 1880s."--The book cover.