Early American Women - a Documentary History, 1600-1900 - Softcover

Woloch, Nancy

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9780070715332: Early American Women - a Documentary History, 1600-1900

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ISBN 10: 0070715335 ISBN 13: 9780070715332

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1996

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This collection of over 100 primary sources reveals the diversity of the American women's experience from the colonial era through the 19th century. The experiences of Native American women, Jewish women, black women, Mexican women, Latinas and Asian-American women are represented.

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-The organization is chronological. Each "chapter", a series of four to eight documents reveal aspects of a specific topic.
-Each chapter opens with a general historical overview.
-EARLY AMERICAN WOMEN draws on a wide variety of sources, including letters, speeches, diaries, memoirs, autobiography, novels, social science, and oral history.
-The experiences of Native American women, Jewish women, black women, Mexican American women and Latinas, and Asian-American women are fully represented.
-Chapters are constituted with a variety of voices that encourage comparison, debate, analysis, and discussion.

About the Author:

Woloch received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Woloch is a well-known women's historian and has published three women's history texts with McGraw-Hill.

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