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Immigrant women in the settlement of Missouri [electronic resource] / Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnett, Robyn.
- Series:
- Missouri heritage readers.
- Missouri heritage readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women pioneers--Missouri--History.
- Women pioneers.
- Women immigrants--Missouri--History.
- Women immigrants.
- Women pioneers--Missouri--Biography.
- Women immigrants--Missouri--Biography.
- Pioneers--Missouri--History.
- Pioneers.
- Immigrants--Missouri--History.
- Immigrants.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Missouri.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Missouri--Social life and customs.
- Missouri.
- Missouri--Biography.
- Missouri--Social life and customs--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Focuses on the lives of immigrant women in Missouri from the colonial period to the Civil War to industrialization. Draws heavily on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of immigrant women from many social classes and ethnic backgrounds and contains photographs and narratives relating to immigrant life"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Immigrant Women
- Settlement
- Missouri
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Immigrant Settlement in Missouri
- Chapter 2 Women Immigrants
- Chapter 3 Women in Early French Villages
- Chapter 4 Women in Colonial St. Louis
- Chapter 5 Journey to Missouri
- Chapter 6 Life in Early St. Louis
- Chapter 7 Immigrant Women on the Frontier
- Chapter 8 German Women and the Church
- Chapter 9 Immigrant Women in Religious Orders
- Chapter 10 Women and the Civil War
- Chapter 11 Immigration after the Civil War
- Chapter 12 Immigrant Farm Families
- Chapter 13 Town Life
- Chapter 14 Immigrant Neighborhoods in St. Louis
- Chapter 15 Women and Work in Industrializing Missouri
- Chapter 16 The First Decades of the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 17 MissouriÌs Patchwork Quilt
- For More Reading
- Index
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-141) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6477-8
- OCLC:
- 64556538
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