UID:
almafu_9961152756302883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 281 pages)
ISBN:
9780813948287
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0-8139-4828-2
Content:
"These essays examine women's varying roles during the War for Independence"--
Note:
Introduction: Women's Wars of the Revolution -- "The First Incendiary": A Female Firebrand and the New York City Fire of 1776 / Benjamin L. Carp -- "I Bare My Bosom, and Pour My Choicest Blood": Republican Sisterhood and Political Violence in Mercy Otis Warren's Adulateur / J. Patrick Mullins -- War Women of the Eastern Woodlands / Barbara Alice Mann -- "A Shocking Thing to Tell Of": Female Civilians, Violence, and Rape under British Military Rule / Lauren Duval -- Neighbors, Land Ladies, and Consorts: New Jersey Women in the Midst of the Continental Army / Steven Elliott -- Betsey Loring: Investigating a Woman's Infamy in the American Revolution / Sean M. Heuvel -- Killed, Imprisoned, Struck by Lightning: Soldiers' Wives on Campaign with the British Army / Don N. Hagist -- Catharine Greene's War for Independence / Martha J. King -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Female Fortitude and the Revolutionary War / Lorri Glover -- A Black Loyalist's Liberty: How Lucy Banbury Took Back Her Freedom / Carin Bloom -- In Reduced Circumstances: Loyalist Women and British Government Assistance, 1779-1783 / Todd W. Braisted -- Complicated Allegiances: Women, Politics, and Property in Post-Occupation Charleston / Jacqueline Beatty -- The "Widowed State": Women's Labor, Sacrifice, and Self-Sufficiency in the American Revolution / Alisa Wade.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8139-4827-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
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History.
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