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Liberty's daughters : the revolutionary experience of American women, 1750-1800 : with a new preface / Mary Beth Norton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norton, Mary Beth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States--History--Sources.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women--Sources.
- Women--Political activity--United States--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This book represents social history on a grand scale, imaginatively conceived and massively researched. Norton brilliantly portrays a dramatic transformation of women's private lives in the wake of the Revolution.
- Contents:
- The small circle of domestic concerns
- The important crisis up on which our fate depends
- Fair flowers if rightly cultivated
- In what wou'd you shew your activity?
- As independent as circumstances will admit
- We commenced perfect statesmen
- Necessity taught us
- A reverence of self
- Vindicating the equality of female intellect.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-374) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801483476
- 9780801483479
- OCLC:
- 34355626
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