عنوان

Women in early America /

(Number (ISBN

1479876410

(Number (ISBN

9781479876419

Erroneous ISBN

1479812196

Erroneous ISBN

147987454X

Erroneous ISBN

1479890472

Erroneous ISBN

9781479812196

Erroneous ISBN

9781479874545

Erroneous ISBN

9781479890477

Title Proper

Women in early America /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Thomas A. Foster ; foreword by Carol Berkin ; afterword by Jennifer L. Morgan.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

New York University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (tables)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Foreword: meeting the challenges of early american women's history / Carol Berkin -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: women in early Americ a: crossing boundaries, rewriting histories / Thomas A. Foster -- Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the inquisition : the travails of a seventeenth-century aristocratic woman in New Mexico / Ramón A. Gutirrez -- "Women are as knowing therein as the men" : Dutch women in early America / Kim Todt -- Women as witches, witches as women : witchcraft and patriarchy in colonial -- North america / Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis -- Servant women and sex in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Betty Wood -- Rebecca Kellogg Ashley : negotiating identity on the early American borderlands, 1704-1757 / Joy A.J. Howard -- Womanly masters : gendering slave ownership in colonial Jamaica / Christine Walker -- Women at the crossroads : trade, mobility, and power in early French America and Detroit / Karen L. Marrero -- The agrarian village world of indian women in the Ohio River Valley / Susan Sleeper-Smith -- Loyalist women in British New York City, 1776-1783 / Ruma Chopra -- "I knew that if I went back to Virginia, I should never get my liberty" : Ona Judge Staines, the president's runaway slave / Erica Armstrong Dunbar -- "The need of their genius" : a women's revolution in early America / Mary C. Kelley -- Afterword: women in early America / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Index -- About the contributors.

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Text of Note

Women in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic. This volume goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known women-both ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and immigrant-who lived and worked in not only British mainland America, but also New Spain, New France, New Netherlands, and the West Indies. In these essays we learn about the conditions tha.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

OverDrive, Inc.

Stock Number

A798C093-EFE2-4E4A-93D4-E650F8248A64

Title

Women in early America

International Standard Book Number

9781479874545

Women-- United States-- History-- 17th century.

Women-- United States-- History-- 18th century.

Women-- United States-- Social conditions.

Social conditions.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination & Race Relations.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Women's Studies.

Women-- Social conditions.

Women.

United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States, Social conditions, To 1865.

United States.

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SOC-- 020000

SOC-- 031000

SOC028000

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Edition

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Book number

Foster, Thomas A.

Date of Transaction

20200823031527.0

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[Book]

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