First Generations: Women in Colonial America

by Carol Berkin

Overview

Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. This remarkable work is a gripping portrait that gives early-American women their proper place in history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466806115
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	07/01/1997
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	234
Sales rank:	443,571
File size:	269 KB

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

A revision, amplification, and synthesis of a rich succession of studies about every aspect of colonial society and culture. [Berkin] brings her subject down to earth . . . and shows sensitivity to the experiences of individual women . . . [First Generations] offers what Mary Beth Norton [author of Founding Mothers and Fathers] rightly calls 'the best available introduction to the lives of women in colonial and revolutionary America.'” —Edmund S. Morgan, The New York Review of Books

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