Mothers of Invention - Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

Informationen zum Autor Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books include Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War , The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South , and This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War . Klappentext When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.

Product details

• Authors: Drew Gilpin Faust, Mack Walker
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2010
• EAN: 9780807866160
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-6616-0
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Civil War America (Paperback)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous