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“Berkin vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles forindependence — for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves. . .. [Her] lively book reclaims a vital part of our political legacy.”—Los Angles Times Book Review
“Compact and informative. . . one is simply bowled over by thecourage and fortitude of these women.” —The Washington Times
“Berkin is a great storyteller . . . her dedication to tellingthe stories of these women is evident.” —The Christian ScienceMonitor
“[Berkin] illuminates the many way women on both sides of theconflict performed as couriers, spies, saboteurs, camp followers[and] noble and enduring wives.” —The Washington Post BookWorld
"Carol Berkin has merged the craft of the skilled historian andthe sensitivity of a master storyteller with her sensibilities as apioneering scholar of women to produce the best narrative of howwomen of diverse backgrounds experienced the American Revolution."—Edith Gelles, author of Portia: The World of Abigail Adams
"Revolutionary Mothers is an accessible, lively blend of greatstory-telling and recent scholarship, the most comprehensive studyyet published of women in the American Revolution. Readers of alldescriptions will enjoy and learn from it." —Mary Beth Norton,author of In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of1692
“Revolutionary Mothers is vintage Carol Berkin, incisive,thoughtful and spiced with vivid anecdotes that add anotherdimension to the narrative. Don"t miss it.” —Thomas Fleming, authorof Liberty! The American Revolution
"Revolutionary Mothers is a treat to read. Not only is CarolBerkin a skillful writer, but she has placed women squarely at thecenter of the independence movement. By showing the different roleswomen played, she moves the battlefield to wherever women wereforced to make choices and employ their talents. Elite, poor, Euro,Native, and African American women collide in Berkin"s book, as dothe rebels and loyalists who were once friends and neighbors. Avaluable and readable book." —Elaine Crane, author of Ebb Tide inNew England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630-1800
目录
INTRODUCTION: Clio’s Daughters, Lost and Found
CHAPTER ONE: “The Easy Task of Obeying”
Englishwomen’s Place in Colonial Society
CHAPTER TWO: “They say it is tea that caused it”
Women Join the Protest Against English Policy
CHAPTER THREE: “You can form no idea of the horrors”
The Challenges of a Home-Front War
CHAPTER FOUR: “Such a sordid set of creatures in humanFigure”
Women Who Followed the Army
CHAPTER FIVE: “How unhappy is war to domestic happiness”
Generals’ Wives and the War
CHAPTER SIX: “A journey a Crosse ye wilderness”
Loyalist Women in Exile
CHAPTER SEVEN: “The women must hear our words”
The Revolution in the Lives of Indian Women
CHAPTER EIGHT: “The day of jubilee is come”
African American Women and the American Revolution
CHAPTER NINE: “It was I who did it”
Spies, Saboteurs, Couriers, and Other Heroines
CHAPTER TEN: “There is no Sex in soul”
The Legacy of Revolution
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
内容介绍
The American Revolution was a home-front war that broughtscarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. Inthis groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women playeda vital role throughout the conflict.
The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizingboycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation,and managing the family business while struggling to maintain amodicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. YetBerkin also reveals that it was not just the men who fought on thefront lines, as in the story of Margaret Corbin, who was crippledfor life when she took her husband’s place beside a cannon at FortMonmouth. This incisive and comprehensive history illuminates afascinating and unknown side of the struggle for Americanindependence.
作者介绍
Carol Berkin, professor of American history at Baruch Collegeand the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is theauthor of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the AmericanConstitution, First Generations, and Jonathan Sewall. She lives inNew York City.
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