Spanning the broad spectrum of colonial-era life, is this revealing exploration of how eighteenth-century American women of various races, classes, and religions, were affected by conditions of the times - war, slavery, religious awakenings, political change, perceptions about gender - as well as how they influenced the world around them. "Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America" follows the transformation of the British colonies to become a new nation. The book is organized thematically to examine marriage and the ...
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Spanning the broad spectrum of colonial-era life, is this revealing exploration of how eighteenth-century American women of various races, classes, and religions, were affected by conditions of the times - war, slavery, religious awakenings, political change, perceptions about gender - as well as how they influenced the world around them. "Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America" follows the transformation of the British colonies to become a new nation. The book is organized thematically to examine marriage and the family, the law, work, travel, war, religion, education and the arts. Each chapter combines current research and primary sources to offer authoritative portraits of real lives of everyday women during this pivotal early era in US history.
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