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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810236603321

Autore

Owens Carole

Titolo

Remarkable women of New England : daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers : the war years 1754 to 1787 / / Carole Owens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut : , : Globe Pequot, , 2016

[Place of distribution not identified] : , : National Book Network, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2016

ISBN

1-4930-1845-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

973.3082

Soggetti

Women - New England - History - 18th century

Women - New England - Social conditions - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Part One The Four Corners of a Woman's World; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Homestead; Chapter 3 The Church; Chapter 4 The Village; Chapter 5 The Social Circle; Chapter 6 Women and the Law; Chapter 7 Women and War; Part Two Post War and the New Century; Chapter 8 Revolution in Women's Lives and Roles; Appendix I: Importance of the French and Indian War; Appendix II: The Revolutionary War and Property Confiscation; Appendix III: The Revolutionary War and the Constitutionalists; Appendix IV: Eighteenth-Century Political Parties

Appendix V: The Constitutionalists and Shays' Regulators: A ComparisonAppendix VI: Weakening of the Church; Bibliography; Endnotes; Name Index