First Generations: Women in Colonial America
by Carol Berkin
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The Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as earlier scholars tended to overlook - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. First Generations is one of the first books to examine these women's experiences, to look at them not only as wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, rebels, But, invariably, as show more active participants in the creation of their societies. In fascinating biographical portraits and analyses of collective experiences, Carol Berkin conveys the varieties of female lives, separated by class, region, and race but linked by laws and presumptions that defined them by gender. show lessTags
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Historian Carol Berkin documents the lives of several different women during colonial times. I particularly enjoyed that she incorporated not just stories of white women but African American and Native American women's stories as well. The book is well written and much more interesting than your average history book as it discusses the women's roles, class, and gender through a feminist approach.
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Carol Berkin is a professor of American history and deputy executive officer in the history Ph.D. program at the City University of New York and Baruch College. She is the author of numerous scholarly works and history textbooks, and has appeared in more than a dozen documentaries on PBS, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the show more Learning Channel. She was the commentator for the History Channel's Founding Fathers and Founding Brothers, and appears in the PBS series Ben Franklin. Professor Berkin lives in New York City show less
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- People/Characters
- Abigail Adams; John Adams; Algonquins; Edmund Andros; Ann Bates; Sally Brant (show all 108); Charles Brockden Brown; Catawbas; Cherokee; Chickasaws; Chocktaw; Mary Cole; Margaret Corbin; Lydia Darragh; Pieter De Vries; Margaret Draper; Elizabeth Drinker; Hannah Emerson Dustin; Anne Easton; Daniel Ela; George Fox; Society of Friends; Christopher Gadsden; Grace Growden Galloway; Deborah Sampson Garnnett; Anne Catherine Greene; Hanna Griffitts; Guardians of the Poor; John Hancock; Margaret Hardenbroeck; Susanna Hatton; Benjamin Hawley; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Huguenots; Anne Hulton; Anne Hutchinson; Thomas Hutchinson; William Hutchinson; Native Americans; Iroquois; Mary Jemison; Jews; Mary Johnson; Dicey Langston; Chrestien LeCercq; Susanna Hudson Lightfoot; Margaret Livingstone; John Locke; Loyalists; Eliza Lucas Pinckney; Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley; Molly Pitcher; Massachusetts Bay Company; Massasoit; Cotton Mather; Increase Mather; Metacomet; Micmac Tribe; Mingo; Mohawks; Munsee; Judith Sergeant Murray; Narragansetts; Mary Neff; Ottawa Indians; William Penn; Frederick Philipse; Margaret Hardenbroeck; William Phips; Pilgrims; Charles Pickney; Eliza Lucas Pinckney; Molly Pitcher; Powhatan; Puritans; Quakers; Quanopin; Mary Rowlandson; Susannah Rowson; Benjamin Rush; Julia Stockton Rush; Scots-Irish Immigrants; Scots-Irish Presbyterians; Seneca; Esther Sewall; Samuel Sewall; Shawnee; Mercy Short; Anna Strong; William Tennet; Martha Thomas; Nat Turner; Tuscarora; Henry Vane; Cornelius Van Horne; Wampanoags; Wamsutta; Lydia Wardell; Ignatius Warren; James Warren; Mary Cole Warren; Mercy Otis Warren; George Washington; Wetamo; John Wheelwright; Roger Williams; Hannah Winthrop; John Winthrop
- Important places
- Anglican Church; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Canada; Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Chesapeake Bay Region, USA; Congregational Church (show all 33); Connecticut, USA; Delaware, USA; Georgia, USA; Handsome Lake; Hudson River Valley, New York, USA; Illinois, USA; Germany; Maryland, USA; Massachusetts, USA; Miami, Florida, USA; Middle Colonies; New Amsterdam, New Netherlands; New England, USA; New Jersey, USA; New Netherlands; New York, USA; New York, New York, USA; North Carolina, USA; Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Piedmont; Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts, USA; Rhode Island, USA; Salem, Massachusetts, USA; South Carolina, USA; Swedish Colonies; Virginia, USA
- Important events
- American Revolution; Edenton Resolve; King Philip's War; 17th century; Pequot War; Slavery (show all 8); Stamp Act; Townshend Acts
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.42 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Groups of people Women Social role and status of women
- LCC
- HQ1416 .B43 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- Dutch, English
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
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