Carol Berkin

Revolutionary Mothers (eBook, ePUB)

Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.

The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. Yet Berkin also reveals that it was not just the men who fought on the front lines, as in the story of Margaret Corbin, who was crippled for life when she took her husband's place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth. This incisive and comprehensive history illuminates a fascinating and unknown side of the struggle for American independence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307427496
• Artikelnr.: 38205410

Autorenporträt

CAROL BERKIN received her A.B. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She taught at Baruch College from 1972 to 2008 and has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983. She is currently Baruch Presidential Professor of History. Berkin is the author ofRevolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist, First Generations: Women in Colonial America, and numerous articles and reviews. She lives in New York City and Guilford, Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: Clio’s Daughters, Lost and Found
CHAPTER ONE: “The Easy Task of Obeying”
Englishwomen’s Place in Colonial Society
CHAPTER TWO: “They say it is tea that caused it”
Women Join the Protest Against English Policy
CHAPTER THREE: “You can form no idea of the horrors”
The Challenges of a Home-Front War
CHAPTER FOUR: “Such a sordid set of creatures in human Figure”
Women Who Followed the Army
CHAPTER FIVE: “How unhappy is war to domestic happiness”
Generals’ Wives and the War
CHAPTER SIX: “A journey a Crosse ye wilderness”
Loyalist Women in Exile
CHAPTER SEVEN: “The women must hear our words”
The Revolution in the Lives of Indian Women
CHAPTER EIGHT: “The day of jubilee is come”
African American Women and the American Revolution
CHAPTER NINE: “It was I who did it”
Spies, Saboteurs, Couriers, and Other Heroines
CHAPTER TEN: “There is no Sex in soul”
The Legacy of Revolution
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index