LEADER 03744nam 2200589 450 001 9910467939203321 005 20210903004628.0 010 $a1-4426-2807-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442628076 035 $a(CKB)4940000000585654 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670010 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670010 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256524 035 $a(OCoLC)904376497 035 $a(DE-B1597)465553 035 $a(OCoLC)979968861 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442628076 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000585654 100 $a20160921h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aViola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979 $ea historian's biography /$fJohn G. Reid 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (255 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 225 1 $aStudies in Gender and History 311 0 $a0-8020-8017-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword /$rKatz, Stanley N. --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. 'I desire that my children be strong and forceful': Nebraska Years, 1885-1916 --$t2. 'History is my life work': The Emerging Scholar, 1916-1929 --$t3. 'A very busy professional woman': Recognition, 1929-1939 --$t4. 'I want to build a good strong department': Maturity, 1939-1950 --$t5. 'There is not too much time left': Retirement, 1950-1960 --$t6. 'I have had a very happy old age': Long Life, 1960-1979 --$t7. Conclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aViola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born in 1885, Barnes was educated at Yale University and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 1919. She was an instrumental member of the 'imperial school' of historians, who interpreted North American colonial history within a British imperial framework. Specializing in New England and Canada's Maritime provinces, her best-known book was The Dominion of New England, published in 1923.In this probing biography, John G. Reid examines Barnes's life as a female historian, providing a revealing glimpse into the gendered experience of professional academia in that era. Reid also examines the imperial school, which, although rapidly losing favour by the 1950s, had yielded results that were crucial to the study of North American colonial history. Viola Florence Barnes was cited as one of 100 'outstanding career women' in the United States in 1940. The later years of her life were marked by difficulty and disillusionment, as she tried in vain to have her last book published. Yet, despite retiring in 1952, Barnes remained an active scholar almost to the time of her death in 1979. This exhaustive work is the first biography of Barnes - a major figure in the study of North American history. 410 0$aStudies in gender and history. 606 $aWomen historians$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aHistorians$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCollege teachers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aWomen college teachers$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen historians 615 0$aHistorians 615 0$aCollege teachers 615 0$aWomen college teachers 676 $a907.202 700 $aReid$b John G.$f1948-$0936774 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467939203321 996 $aViola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979$92200681 997 $aUNINA