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Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
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| Part No: | 1400075327 |
| Manufacturer: | Vintage |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9781400075324
- Condition: New
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The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.
The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. Yet Berkin also reveals that it was not just the men who fought on the front lines, as in the story of Margaret Corbin, who was crippled for life when she took her husband’s place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth. This incisive and comprehensive history illuminates a fascinating and unknown side of the struggle for American independence.
| Well-rounded and wonderful history of the female strength. | 2010-07-03 | 4 / 5 |
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| This book caught my eye as I was browsing through the History section of B & N. I picked it up and read the first 20 pages and bought it. It is a collection of factual accounts written and witnessed by women and men from the dawn of our country. It will be a book I take out over the years again and again. Probably a book I teach from, too. England and others countries have so much more respect for women at this timeframe. The way the Colonials treated women was detrimental to generations after them and undeserving. Even the Native Americans thought the men pushing out the women for meetings and voting purposes were denying themselves the entire point of views those women would have provided. The book does get a bit dry and boring in some places where the author feels the need to reiterate material for the sake of factual proof. This would, however, make a great PBS short using various stories. |
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| This book is short and too the point. It highlights womens role in history, something that is not done often. It is done in a way that is short and to the point so that people will read the whole book and not quit halfway through. If you are interested in the role women have played in the history of the United States this is a good choice. |
| A great point of view | 2009-10-27 | 4 / 5 |
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This is a very short and easy read. It is well worth the time although I would recommend renting it rather than purchasing it.
I enjoyed reading a book told by a different point of view.
I can only hope others follow up focusing on other specific ways for which people contributed to the Revolution: children, elders, teenagers, the educated, the uneducated, loyalists, libertarian, etc. |
| Entertaining and Informing | 2008-12-13 | 5 / 5 |
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Carol Berkin provides an extraordinary depiction of women of the American Revolution, in her book Revolutionary Mothers. Not only does she write about women supporting the war, but she also writes about the lives of women, and the events that followed, after they claimed support for the British. She even provides entire chapters to the lives of Indian and African American women. The book is an easy read, but is fascinating the entire time.
One may ask while reading this book, "Does Berikin really justify the magnitude of the women's role in the American Revolution?" I would say abosolutely she does. She revives vivid accounts of women's experiences in the war. One such woman is Abigail Adams. Berkin includes a letter of Adams, saying that she witnessed a merchant who refused to sell coffee at a reasonable price and how a band of women seized the merchant's warehouse and took the coffee. (Berkin, 32)
Berkin makes another justified argument when she writes of how women, before the war had begun, shouldered the burden of many of the reforms passed and protested themselves. When the call went out to boycott British goods, women were then not expected to be consumers anymore but rather transform into producers. According to Berkin, they succeeded admirably.
I recommend this book to anyone who was like myself. I understood women played an important part during the American Revolution, but I never fully understood what exactly was they did. Berkin fills the blanks in perfectly.
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| Every woman should read this | 2008-01-09 | 5 / 5 |
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| Carol Berkin has written a book so interesting that I can cite the women's names and tell their stories to my friends. An outstanding author who has the ability to bring real women of the past into the present by describing the lives and the actions of these women. I've since ordered Berkin's other books. I've recommended this book to all my friends. The creativity and persistence of women to survive and lead productive, heroine lives out of the most extreme of situations amazes me. |
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