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The Columbia Guide To American Women In
Clinton, Catherine; Lunardini, Christine A.
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Description for The Columbia Guide To American Women In
Hardback. Offers students of women's history and nineteenth-century American culture with a source of information and interpretation. This book focuses on areas in which scholars have identified changes (such as suffrage and reform), and innovative explorations (for example, work on female sexuality). It features alphabetical encyclopedia-like entries. Series: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; GBC; GTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
The experience of women in the nineteenth century has generated a wealth of interdisciplinary research in recent decades. The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century presents the best of the recent scholarship available in a concise, "one-stop" resource, providing students of women's history and nineteenth-century American culture with an authoritative source of information and interpretation. The authors emphasize areas in which scholars have identified important changes (such as suffrage and reform), topics in which researchers are now making great strides (such as racial, ethnic, religious, and regional diversity), and innovative and relatively recent explorations (for example, work ... Read more
The experience of women in the nineteenth century has generated a wealth of interdisciplinary research in recent decades. The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century presents the best of the recent scholarship available in a concise, "one-stop" resource, providing students of women's history and nineteenth-century American culture with an authoritative source of information and interpretation. The authors emphasize areas in which scholars have identified important changes (such as suffrage and reform), topics in which researchers are now making great strides (such as racial, ethnic, religious, and regional diversity), and innovative and relatively recent explorations (for example, work ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231109208
SKU
V9780231109208
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About Clinton, Catherine; Lunardini, Christine A.
Catherine Clinton is an American historian and the author of many books, including Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War and Half-Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past. She is a contributor to The New Yorker.Christine Lunardini is a freelance writer who holds a Ph.D. in American History from Princeton. Her books include What Every American Should Know ... Read more
Reviews for The Columbia Guide To American Women In
[The authors] begin with a historiographical overview of the literature followed by highly readable chapters on topics from economy, households, and labor to suffrage and reform politics... provides an excellent introduction to the subject. Choice The volume moves sensibly from addressing the needs of beginners to those of specialists, all of whom should find this guide helpful and satisfying. Times ... Read more