Unfinished Battle American Women 1848-1865

Name: Unfinished Battle American Women 1848-1865
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ISBN: 9780195124033

ISBN-10: 0195124030

ISBN-13: 9780195124033

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Harriet Sigerman

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1848 was a year of revolution. In the United States, several determined women in upstate New York drafted a declaration of rights modeled on the 1776 Declaration of Independence and held a convention, which was attended by almost 300 women and men. The Seneca Falls Convention, writes Harriet Sigerman, launched the formal women's rights movement in the United States. It was one of many historical events in which American women left their mark in the years between 1848 and 1865. This period also witnessed the expansion of the nation's boundaries and new settlements out West, the conflagration of the Civil War, and the nation's emergence as an industrial power. American women played a vital…

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List price: $12.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/26/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Harriet Sigerman is an independent scholar. In addition to writing three volumes in the young adult series Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, she is the author of Land of Many Hands: Women in the American Westand the award-winning Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "The Right Is Ours".