Slender Thread - Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860

Informationen zum Autor Willeen G. Keough Klappentext Through Meticulous research! a skillful layering of evidence! and the interweaving of traditional and nontraditional sources! Willeen Keough moves women to the center of North American migration and early settlement narratives. She explores the lives of Irish Newfoundland women who cofounded fishing communities along the southern Avalon Peninsula in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her work connects North American colonial history to a valuable historiography published in Canada and Ireland and opens up new areas of research into the gender roles and demographics of migration and settlement. In doing so! she makes a great contribution to colonial and women's history! as well as the history of the social division of labor! and writes a defining work that is extraordinary in its attention to the minutiae of women's everyday lives. Zusammenfassung "This work is a partial representation of The Slender Thread by Willeen Keough! a multimedia work of scholarship published in the Gutenberg-e online history series. As such! this print edition does not include the images! maps or the index contained in the online edition."-- p.ii.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Willeen Keough, Willeen (Assistant Professor Keough, Willeen G. Keough
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.12.2008
• EAN: 9780231132022
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13202-2
• Pagine: 560
• Serie: Gutenberg-e; Gutenberg-e
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history