Mary Beth Norton

Liberty's Daughters

The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800

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Produktbeschreibung

This book represents social history on a grand scale, imaginatively conceived and massively researched. Norton brilliantly portrays a dramatic transformation of women's private lives in the wake of the Revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780801483479
• ISBN-10: 0801483476
• Artikelnr.: 22370585

Autorenporträt

Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University. She is the author of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 and the coeditor of 'To Toil the Livelong Day': America's Women at Work, 1780-1980, also from Cornell.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: THE CONSTANT PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES
1. The Small Circle of Domestic Concerns
2. The Important Crisis upon Which Our Fate Depends
3. Fair Flowers, If Rightly Cultivated
4. In What Would You Shew Your Activity?
5. As Independent as Circumstances Will AdmitPART II: THE CHANGING PATTERNS
OF WOMEN'S LIVES
6. We Commenced Perfect Statesmen
7. Necessity Taught Us 195 8. A Reverence of Self
9. Vindicating the Equality of Female IntellectConclusion: A New Era of
Female History
Abbreviations Appearing in the Sources and References
Glossary of Major Families and Sources
Essay on Sources
Chapter References
Index