ISBN:
9781469641010
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
The David J. Weber series in the New Borderlands history
Series Statement:
North Carolina scholarship online
DDC:
305.40974
Keywords:
Geschichte 1650-1776
;
Grenzgebiet
;
Krieg
;
Soldatin
;
Frau
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Sex role History
;
Sex role History
;
Women soldiers History
;
Women soldiers History
;
Women History
;
Women History
;
USA Nordoststaaten
Abstract:
Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime roles as essential public actors, wielding muskets, hatchets, and makeshift weapons while fighting for their families, communities, and nations. Revealing the fundamental importance of martial womanhood in this era, Gina M. Martino places borderlands women in a broad context of empire, cultural exchange, violence, and nation building, demonstrating how women's war making was embedded in national and imperial strategies of expansion and resistance.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640990.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640990.001.0001
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