Female Alliances - Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain

"In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long eighteenth century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women's lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world"--

Product details

• Authors: Amanda E. Herbert, Herbert Amanda E.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2014
• EAN: 9780300177404
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17740-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800