First Generations: Women in Colonial America
Language: English
Published by Hill and Wang, New York, 1996
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Generations Press, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.Generations Press
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Condition: Used - Very good
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The author looks at women in a variety of different parts of Colonial American, and at different races and ethnicities. Different chapters look at white women in New England, immigrant women in the middle states, African-American women, Native American women, etc. A very interesting sociological study of the position of a wide range of Colonial American women. Paperback in very good condition, except for apparent fading to cover from sun exposure (could have printed that way for "antique" effect - hard to tell). 234 pages, 5½ x 8½ inches, not illustrated. Includes and index and bibliographical study.
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- Title
- First Generations: Women in Colonial America
- Author
- Berkin, Carol
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang, New York
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809016060
- ISBN 13
- 9780809016068
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- History, United States, Women
Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied roles as wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, rebels, and, ultimately, critical forces in shaping the new nation's culture and history.
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About the Author
Carol Berkin is Professor of History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, Women's Voices/Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History, and coeditor, with Mary Beth Norton, of Women of America: A History.
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