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Unyielding Spirits

Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica

By Maureen G. Elgersman

This comparative study uncovers the differences and similarities in the experiences of Black women enslaved in colonial Canada and Jamaica, and demonstrates how differences in…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3229-9 (Routledge)

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Women in Early American Religion 1600-1850

The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions

By Marilyn J. Westerkamp

Women in Early American Religion, 1600-1850 explores the first two centuries of America's religious history, examining the relationship between the socio-political environment, gender, politics and…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-09814-4 (Routledge)

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Queer Sites

Gay Urban Histories Since 1600

Edited by David Higgs

There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15898-5 (Routledge)

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Women in Early American Religion, 1600-1850

The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions

By Marilyn J. Westerkamp

Women in Early American Religion, 1600-1850 explores the first two centuries of America's religious history, examining the relationship between the socio-political environment, gender, politics…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19448-8 (Routledge)

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Empire And Others

British Encounters With Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850

By Professor M. Daunton, RICK HALPERN

Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the 17th and 18th centuries, from the multiple kingdoms of England, Scotland and…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-1-85728-991-6 (Routledge)

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Reared in a Greenhouse

The StoriesNand StoryNof Dorothy Winthrop Bradford

By Dorothy B. Wexler

Beloved as the family storyteller, Dorothy Winthrop Bradford left behind at her death in 1987 diaries, letters, scrapbooks and memorabilia that date back to the…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-8153-3254-1 (Routledge)

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A History of European Women's Work

1700 to the Present

By Deborah Simonton

The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-05532-1 (Routledge)

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Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700

By Jacqueline Eales

This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern period. It emcompasses a guide to the…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-1-85728-268-9 (Routledge)

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Hildegard of Bingen

A Visionary Life

By Sabina Flanagan

Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell--where a woman would remain in pious…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-18551-6 (Routledge)

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Displaying Women

Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York

By Maureen E. Montgomery

Displaying Women explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen--on Fifth Avenue and Broadway,…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90566-4 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia: Divorce and Marriage Law
By Kate O'Shaughnessy
To be published December 18th 2008

Women and Empire, 1750–1939, 5-vol. set: Primary Sources on Gender and Anglo-Imperialism
Edited by Susan K. Martin, Caroline Daley, Elizabeth Dimock, Cheryl Cassidy, Cecily Devereux
To be published January 21st 2009

Sexuality in World History
By Peter N. Stearns
To be published February 27th 2009

Black Women in American Literature of the South
By Sherita L. Johnson
To be published March 15th 2009

The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise, Home and Household in London, c. 1800-1870
By Alison Kay
To be published March 31st 2009

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