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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War - Faust, Drew Gilpin
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From hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs of the period, historian Drew Gilpin Faust reveals how war changed the lives of Southern women forever--from a housewife having to do physical labor for the first time to a Virginia aristocrat turned military nurse to a ruthless teenaged girl spy. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, and Winner of the Avery Craven Prize. 40 b&w photos throughout.

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 2010, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807866160

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 2004, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807855737

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 1997, Vintage Books USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780679781042

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 1996, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807822555

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