Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
1299053998
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9781603446037
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9781299053991
Series Statement:
Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest v.24
Content:
In the early nineteenth century, many women championed expansion for the cause of civilization while avoiding the masculine world of politics. Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of ninety Texas women, offering a new understanding of not only gender roles in the West but also the impulse for expansionism.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Domesticity and Expansionism -- Cultivating the "Garden of the South-West" -- Women and Texas Independence -- Fighting for the Cause of Civilization -- A Feeling of Destiny -- Slavery and Expansion -- A Magnificent Empire -- Of Politics and True Womanhood -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Domesticity and Expansionism""; ""Cultivating the “Garden of the South-West�""; ""Women and Texas Independence""; ""Fighting for the Cause of Civilization""; ""A Feeling of Destiny""; ""Slavery and Expansion""; ""A Magnificent Empire""; ""Of Politics and True Womanhood""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781585444090
Additional Edition:
Print version True Women and Westward Expansion
Language:
English
Keywords:
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