Good wives: Image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750 - Couverture souple

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195033604 ISBN 13 : 9780195033601

Editeur : New York : Oxford University Press, 1983

Synopsis

Book by Ulrich Laurel Thatcher

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising -- and, all too often, mourning -- her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.

Biographie de l'auteur

LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH was born in Sugar City, Idaho. She holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire, University of Utah, and Simmons College. She is 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University and past president of the American Historical Association. As a MacArthur Fellow, Ulrich worked on the PBS documentary based on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale. Her work is also featured on an award-winning website called dohistory.org. She is immediate past president of the Mormon History Association. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York : Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195033604
• ISBN 13: 9780195033601
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie