The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760

by Jane Kamensky

Book Overview

The story of colonial settlement is often told as if men were the only actors, but women--as wives, agricultural workers, domestic servants, members of religious congregations, community builders, and mothers of a new generation--were crucial to European settlements just as women in Native American groups were to theirs.
Colonial "women's work" was hard, physical labor. In the South, the urgency of farming crops for export stretched a woman's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195080157
• ISBN13: 9780195080155
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12