Heading (Acknowledgments)
Introduction: The Heart in the Glass Jar  
Section 1: The Letter of the Law
Section 2: The Lettered Countryside  
Section 3: The Body of the Letter  
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index

A history of love and courtship in Mexico from the 1860s through the 1930s based on love letters preserved in legal cases involving courtship.

William E. French is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico and the coeditor of Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence.