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OverviewRanging from Georgia's founding in the 1730s until the American Revolution in the 1770s, Georgia's Frontier Women explores women's changing roles amid the developing demographic, economic, and social circumstances of the colony's settling. Georgia was launched as a unique experiment on the borderlands of the British Atlantic world. Its female population was far more diverse than any in nearby colonies at comparable times in their formation. Ben Marsh tells a complex story of narrowing opportunities for Georgia's women as the colony evolved from uncertainty toward stability in the face of sporadic warfare, changes in government, land speculation, and the arrival of slaves and immigrants in growing numbers. Marsh looks at the experiences of white, black, and Native American women-old and young, married and single, working in and out of the home. Mary Musgrove, who played a crucial role in mediating colonist-Creek relations, and Marie Camuse, a leading figure in Georgia's early silk industry, are among the figures whose life stories Marsh draws on to illustrate how some frontier women broke down economic barriers and wielded authority in exceptional ways. Marsh also looks at how basic assumptions about courtship, marriage, and family varied over time. To early settlers, for example, the search for stability could take them across race, class, or community lines in search of a suitable partner. This would change as emerging elites enforced the regulation of traditional social norms and as white relationships with blacks and Native Americans became more exploitive and adversarial. Many of the qualities that earlier had distinguished Georgia from other southern colonies faded away. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ben MarshPublisher: University of Georgia Press Imprint: University of Georgia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.369kg ISBN: 9780820343402ISBN 10: 0820343404 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 30 May 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsMarsh's engaging study of early Georgia explores both the lives of women and the expectations of womanhood from the colony's origins through the era of the American Revolution. . . . Marsh's study will be an edifying, thought-provoking read for colonial and women's historians as well as anyone curious about Georgia's early history. His thorough engagement of sources . . . is a model of rigorous enquiry. And the book is written in a lively style, which will make it engaging to lay readers and undergraduates as well as professional historians. --Georgia Historical Quarterly <p> Marsh provides a readable and compelling work on Georgia's formative years and effectively uses family and gender to help explain the colony's transformation into a southern stronghold. -- H-Net Reviews Author InformationBen Marsh is a lecturer in history at Stirling University in Scotland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |