ISBN:
9781135301965
,
1135301964
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (295 pages)
Series Statement:
New World in the Atlantic World
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sturtz, Linda Within Her Power : Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia
DDC:
305.409755
Keywords:
Women History
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17th century
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Virginia
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Women History
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18th century
;
Virginia
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Women landowners History
;
Virginia
;
Women Legal status, laws, etc
;
History
;
Virginia
;
Women History 18th century
;
Women landowners History
;
Women Legal status, laws, etc
;
History
;
Women History 17th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Women
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Women landowners
;
Women ; Legal status, laws, etc
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History
;
Virginia History
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Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
;
Virginia
;
Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
;
Virginia
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system, the economic and discretionary authority they enjoyed, the roles they played in the family business, their roles in the later, trans-Atlantic trading framework, and the imperial context within which these colonial women lived, making this a welcome addition to both colonial and women's history
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