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7%OFFLaura F. Edwards - Scarlett Doesn´t Live Here Anymore: SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA - 9780252072185 - V9780252072185
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Scarlett Doesn´t Live Here Anymore: SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA

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Description for Scarlett Doesn´t Live Here Anymore: SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA Paperback. An history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War focusing on the women, black and white, rich and poor, who made up the fabric of southern life before the war and remade themselves and their world after it. It explores the experiences and actions of individual women in the changing South. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 284 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a dramatic history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War: a history that focuses on the women, black and white, rich and poor, who made up the fabric of southern life before the war and remade themselves and their world after it.
Positing the household as the central institution of southern society, Edwards delineates the inseparable links between domestic relations and civil and political rights in ways that highlight women's active political role throughout the nineteenth century. She draws on diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, government records, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252072185
SKU
V9780252072185
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About Laura F. Edwards
  Laura F. Edwards is an associate professor of history at Duke University and the author of Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction.  

Reviews for Scarlett Doesn´t Live Here Anymore: SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA
"Edwards has written a new Civil War history, dominated not by causes, battles, and generals and politicians, but by the home front... [Edwards] makes the vital claim that African American and poorer white southerners played as great a role in creating the New South as did the elite of the planter classes... Any future histories approaching this field would surely ... Read more

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