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9780271079295 Academic Inspection Copy

Sentiments of a British-American Woman

Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution
  • ISBN-13: 9780271079295
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Owen S. Ireland
  • Price: AUD $54.99
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2019
  • Format: Paperback 264 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Explores the life and work of political publicist and strategist Esther DeBerdt Reed, who, in a life highly structured by conflict, national identity, religion, and the overall importance of being a wife and mother, gave eloquent expression to the political aspirations of female patriots in Revolutionary America.


Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: Esther: Imprudent and Impatient Love

Chapter Two: Joseph: Love and Calculation

Chapter Three: A Willful Girl Matures

Chapter Four: Responsibilities and Schemes

Chapter Five: Politics: Old World Patronage

Chapter Six: Love Defeats Prudence

Chapter Seven: Exiled Where Women “stooped like country girls.”

Chapter Eight: A New Political Identity: “They” becomes “We”

Chapter Nine: “Unleash the Dogs of War”

Chapter Ten: Politics: New World Democracy

Chapter Eleven: America’s Female Politician

Chapter Twelve: Triumph and Tragedy

Bibliographical Essay

Notes

Index


“A love story worthy of William Shakespeare, a snapshot of family life in catastrophic times, and a guide to what went wrong between Britain and its American colonies from 1764 to 1783.”

—Edith Gelles, The William and Mary Quarterly

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