ISBN10: 0807846325, ISBN13: 9780807846322, [publisher: The University of North Carolina Press] Softcover Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1997]

The University of North Carolina Press 1997 Revised ed. Trade Paperback Very Good in None jacket Published By The Omohundro Institute Of Early American History And Culture And The University Of North Carolina Press.

University of North Carolina Press, Date: 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1997. University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0807846325 9780807846322 [US]

ISBN10: 0807846325, ISBN13: 9780807846322, [publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr] Softcover reprint edition. 304 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1997]

ISBN10: 0807846325, ISBN13: 9780807846322, [publisher: Omohundro Institute And UNC Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The 'women of the army' toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. 'I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government,' wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right.Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric ...