First Generations: Women in Colonial America - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780809016068

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by Carol Berkin (Author)

Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied roles as wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, rebels, and, ultimately, critical forces in shaping the new nation's culture and history.

Author Biography

Carol Berkin is Professor of History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, Women's Voices/Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History, and coeditor, with Mary Beth Norton, of Women of America: A History.

Number of Pages: 256

Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN

Publication Date: July 01, 1997

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