| First Generations Contributor(s): Berkin, Carol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809016060 ISBN-13: 9780809016068 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1997 Annotation: Traditional scholarship has tended to omit the obvious truth that European, Indian, and African women of 17th- and 18th-century America were critical actors in shaping the new nation's culture and history. FIRST GENERATIONS examines women as active participants in the creation of their society and, finally, gives early American women their proper place in history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.55 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Berkin, Carol: - 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. |