Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty; An Intimate and Objective Family Life in Mexico Today - A Dramatic Study of the Culture of Poverty
by Oscar Lewis (Author); Oliver La Farge (With A Foreword by)
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- Paperback
- Condition
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About This Item
New York, Toronto, ON, Canada: A Mentor Book/Published by the New American Library/The New American Library, Inc., 1959. 5th Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall. Alberto Beltrán (Illustrated by). 319 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear. A perfectly acceptable study/ reading/ work/ research copy. Notes inscribed on inside front cover page top corner. Light foxing on page edges. Clean text. Minimally frayed spine bottom. Bottom right corner of front cover chipped.
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- Title
- Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty; An Intimate and Objective Family Life in Mexico Today - A Dramatic Study of the Culture of Poverty
- Author
- Oscar Lewis (Author); Oliver La Farge (With A Foreword by)
- Illustrator
- Alberto Beltrán (Illustrated by)
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- A Mentor Book/Published by the New American Library/The New American Library, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 319
- Keywords
- Mexican Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Studies, Mexican Studies, Poverty, Family Life, Chicano and Ethnic Studies
- Size
- 12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall
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