| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 178 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 24
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Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 24.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index. |
| Contents |
Domesticity and expansionism -- Cultivating the "Garden of the South-West" -- Women and Texas independence -- Fighting for the cause of civilization -- A feeling of destiny -- Slavery and expansion -- A magnificent empire -- Of politics and true womanhood. |
| Summary |
"Adrienne Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of ninety Texas women to uncover the ideas and enthusiasms they brought to the Western frontier. Although there were a few notable exceptions, most of the women drew on their domestic skills and values to establish not only "civilization" but also their own security. Caughfield sheds light on women's activism (the flip side of domesticity), attitudes toward and race and "civilization," the tie between a vision of a unified continent and a cultivated wilderness, and republican values. She offers a new understanding of not only gender roles in the West but also the impulse for expansionism itself."--Jacket. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women pioneers -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.
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Women pioneers. |
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Texas. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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Women -- Texas -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century.
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Women. |
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- Public opinion.
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United States. |
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Territorial expansion. |
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Public opinion. |
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Public opinion -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Texas -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Sex role -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex role. |
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Texas -- History -- 19th century.
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Texas -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Spine Title |
True women and westward expansion |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Caughfield, Adrienne, 1971- True women & westward expansion. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2005 158544409X (DLC) 2004019731 (OCoLC)56367175 |
| ISBN |
9781603446037 (electronic book) |
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1603446036 (electronic book) |
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158544409X |
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9781585444090 |
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