A Woman′s Dilemma - Rosemarie Zagarri

A Woman′s Dilemma

Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution
Buch | Hardcover
216 Seiten
2015 | 2nd Edition
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-1-118-98113-9 (ISBN)
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The second edition of A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution updates Rosemarie Zagarri's biography of one of the most accomplished women of the Revolutionary era.
The second edition of A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution updates Rosemarie Zagarri's biography of one of the most accomplished women of the Revolutionary era. The work places Warren into the social and political context in which she lived and examines the impact of Warren's writings on Revolutionary politics and the status of women in early America.



Presents readers with an engaging and accessible historical biography of an accomplished literary and political figure of the Revolutionary era

Provides an incisive narrative of the social and intellectual forces that contributed to the coming of the American Revolution

Features a variety of updates, including an in-depth Bibliographical Essay, multiple illustrations, a timeline of Warren's life, and chapter-end study questions

Includes expanded coverage of women during the Revolutionary Era and the Early American Republic

Rosemarie Zagarri is University Professor and Professor of History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is the author of The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776-1850 (1987) and Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (2007). She is also editor of David Humphreys? ?Life of General Washington? with George Washington?s ?Remarks? (1991).

Acknowledgments viii


A Partial Genealogy of the Family of Mercy Otis Warren xi


Map: Massachusetts in 1782 xii


Timeline: Mercy Otis Warren/The American Revolution xiii


Introduction xv


1 The First Friends of Her Heart 1


2 Politics as a Family Affair 23


3 Her Pen as a Sword 49


4 War Widows 79


5 An Old Republican 99


6 “History is not the Province of the Ladies” 135


Conclusion: The Line Beyond Her Sex 164


Bibliographical Essay 172


Index 186

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.1.2015
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 146 x 222 mm
Gewicht 350 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-118-98113-8 / 1118981138
ISBN-13 978-1-118-98113-9 / 9781118981139
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