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Author : Linda Briggs Biemer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women and Property in Colonial New York written by Linda Briggs Biemer and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David E. Narrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inheritance and Family Life in Colonial New York City written by David E. Narrett and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground by offering the first detailed and systematic analysis of inheritance practices in New York City from the beginning of Dutch settlement in the 1620s to the onset of the American Revolution. By analyzing a broad range of original sources--including more than 2,300 wills--David E. Narrett shows how the transmission of property at death reflected the distribution of power and authority within the family. The author makes an especially important contribution to early New York history by explaining the Dutch origins of social and family customs, and by tracing the persistence of Dutch ways following the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664. He demonstrates that seventeenth-century Dutch law was particularly favorable to women since it sanctioned community property within marriage, the drafting of mutual wills by spouses, and the equal (or nearly equal) division of property among all children. While the book maintains its comparative focus on the Dutch and English traditions, it also includes material on other ethnic groups (for example, French Huguenots and Jews) living in a pluralistic society. Narrett utilizes both Dutch and English language sources to examine such pertinent topics as the relationship between law and social custom, primogeniture, kinship and communal ties, charitable bequests, the manumission of slaves, and the literacy level of testators.Written in a clear and precise manner, the book includes many tables that will give readers immediate access to supporting data, and a conclusion establishes the relationship of Narrett's findings to relevant scholarship. A valuable addition to the literature on inheritance, this is a book whose conclusions and data will be mined by colonialists, legal historians, and historians of women and the family.
Author : Marylynn Salmon
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women and the Law of Property in Early America written by Marylynn Salmon and published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and the Law of Property in Early America
Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252029974
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women's History in Global Perspective written by Bonnie G. Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians commissioned some of the pioneering figures in women's history to prepare essays in their respective areas of expertise. This volume, the second in a series of three, collects their efforts. As a counterpoint to the broad themes discussed in the first volume, Volume 2 is concerned with issues that have shaped the history of women in particular places and during particular eras. It examines women in ancient civilizations; including women in China, Japan, and Korea; women and gender in South and South East Asia; Medieval women; women and gender in Colonial Latin America; and the history of women in the US to 1865. Authors included are Sarah Hughes and Brady Hughes, Susan Mann, Barbara N. Ramusack, Judith M. Bennett, Ann Twinam, and Kathleen Brown. Incorporating essays from top scholars ranging over an abundance of regions, dates, and methodologies, the three volumes of Women's History in Global Perspective constitute an invaluable resource for anyone interested in a comprehensive overview on the latest in feminist scholarship.
Author : Debra Meyers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317721616
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds written by Debra Meyers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection brings together essays on women's religious experiences in both Europe and the Americas during the colonial era.
Author : Robert K. Miller Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489919317
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inheritance and Wealth in America written by Robert K. Miller Jr. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inheritance and Wealth in America is a superb collection of original essays, written in nontechnical language by experts in sociology, economics, anthropology, history, law, and other disciplines. Notable chapters provide - an outstanding interpretative history of inheritance in American legal thought - a critical review of the literature on the economics of inheritance at the household and societal levels - a superb history of Federal taxation of wealth transfers, and - a sociological examination of inheritance and its role in class reproduction and stratification. This groundbreaking work is of value to any researcher dealing with the transmission of wealth and privilege across generations.
Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466806117
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book First Generations written by Carol Berkin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. This remarkable work is a gripping portrait that gives early-American women their proper place in history.
Author : Thomas A. Foster
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147987454X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women in Early America written by Thomas A. Foster and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic Women in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known women—both ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and immigrant—who lived and worked in not only British mainland America, but also New Spain, New France, New Netherlands, and the West Indies. In these essays we learn about the conditions that women faced during the Salem witchcraft panic and the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico; as indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland; caught up between warring British and Native Americans; as traders in New Netherlands and Detroit; as slave owners in Jamaica; as Loyalist women during the American Revolution; enslaved in the President’s house; and as students and educators inspired by the air of equality in the young nation. Foster showcases the latest research of junior and senior historians, drawing from recent scholarship informed by women’s and gender history—feminist theory, gender theory, new cultural history, social history, and literary criticism. Collectively, these essays address the need for scholarship on women’s lives and experiences. Women in Early America heeds the call of feminist scholars to not merely reproduce male-centered narratives, “add women, and stir,” but to rethink master narratives themselves so that we may better understand how women and men created and developed our historical past.
Author : Philip N. Mulder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351950568
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Colonial America and the Early Republic written by Philip N. Mulder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the best recent scholarship of Early America and the Early Republic, the articles in this collection study the many dimensions of American political history. The authors explore Native American interests and encounters with settlers, diplomatic endeavors, environmental issues, legal debates and practiced law, women's citizenship and rights, servitude and slavery and popular political activity. The geographical perspective is as expansive as the topical, with strong representation of trans-Atlantic and continental interests of many nations and peoples. The international and interdisciplinary perspectives illustrate the dynamic transformations of America during this era of settlement, conquest, development, revolution and nation building.
Author : Marsha R. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443847135
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women Who Belong written by Marsha R. Robinson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why bother to invert the history of Western women? We must do so to fight an insidious, fallacious assumption that patriarchy is universal and eternal, and we must do so to nullify the amnesic effects of Domesticity’s potent semantics. We must resist this two-pronged attack that reduces women to powerless incubators. When we invert the patriarchal hegemony and center the ordinary woman as empowered owner and hostess to her life story, we find women, rich and poor, who chose when, where, how and if they would cooperate with the rules of patriarchy, rules often supported by other women. Our heroines demanded the rights due them for properly occupying their societal place in the home, in church or on the street corner. We find this to be consistent across time and space. We start in the seventeenth century with European women on three continents: Europe, North Africa and North America. We present Isabel de Jésus, Alida Schuyler Van Rensselaer Livingston, and soldiers’ wives, widows and femes sole of the Tangier and Gibraltar garrisons. Here we have women of different religions, language groups and social classes, and they all used patriarchal laws to protect their rights. We move across time to the turn of the twentieth century in Ireland, Puerto Rico and the United States where we find women as wives of rich men in Toledo’s Woman Suffrage Association, as middle class professionals in the civilizing missions of the Christian Church in Puerto Rico, the magdalen homes of Ireland, and the eugenics movement in the US, and as sex workers serving tradesmen in Ireland. Again, these women manipulated the legal systems and demanded the powers due them from legislators, mission boards, and judges. The microhistories of women in this volume adulterate the assumption of universal and eternal patriarchy. As these women claimed the rights due them for properly occupying their prescribed social roles, they also created alliances with men who partnered with them in their feminist projects. Why should we invert Women’s history with microhistory? We must do so to liberate men and women from fallacious, patriarchal oppression.
