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The Women. A Family Story.
Kerry William Bate
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Description for The Women. A Family Story.
Hardback. A singular narrative woven from the biographies of four generations of women in southwestern Utah" Num Pages: 480 pages, 51 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BGH; HBTB; HBTG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 975.
Family history, usually destined or even designed for limited consumption, is a familiar genre within Mormon culture. Mostly written with little attention to standards of historical scholarship, such works are a distinctly hagiographic form of family memorabilia.But in the right hands, many family sagas can prove widely engaging, owing to inherent drama and historical relevance. They can truthfully illuminate larger matters of history, humanity, and culture.
Kerry Bate proceeds on the premise that a story centering on The Women of the clan could provide fresh perspective and insight. He portrays real people with wellrounded, flawed characters; builds from deep ... Read more
Family history, usually destined or even designed for limited consumption, is a familiar genre within Mormon culture. Mostly written with little attention to standards of historical scholarship, such works are a distinctly hagiographic form of family memorabilia.But in the right hands, many family sagas can prove widely engaging, owing to inherent drama and historical relevance. They can truthfully illuminate larger matters of history, humanity, and culture.
Kerry Bate proceeds on the premise that a story centering on The Women of the clan could provide fresh perspective and insight. He portrays real people with wellrounded, flawed characters; builds from deep ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Utah Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607815167
SKU
V9781607815167
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About Kerry William Bate
Kerry William Bate has been a community organizer, Utah State Community Development Division director, and director of the Housing Authority of the County of Salt Lake. He has published in such varied magazines as The Utah Realtor,Utah Historical Quarterly, OralHistory Review, The American Genealogist, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and has authored or coauthored four family histories.
Reviews for The Women. A Family Story.
“A detailed, lively, local history. The author has done an astonishing amount of recording and transcribing of oral histories, and it often brings characters to life in a wonderful way.” —Todd Compton, author of A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary "The Women gives specific information about nearly every aspect of life on the American ... Read more