Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh A Woman in World History

Name: Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh A Woman in World History
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ISBN: 9780385721493

ISBN-10: 0385721498

ISBN-13: 9780385721493

Edition: N/A

Authors: Linda Colley

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This is a book about a world in a life. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-1785) traveled farther and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe than the vast majority of men. She was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to carry out extensive explorations in eastern and southern India. A creature of multiple frontiers, she spent time in London, Menorca, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape of Africa. She speculated in Florida land, was caught up in the French and Indian War, linked to voyages to the Pacific, and enmeshed as victim or owner in three different systems of slavery. She was also crucially part of far larger…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.14" wide x 7.96" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Linda Colley was professor of history at yale University from 1982-1997 when she accepted an appointment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has just accepted a position as professor of history at Princeton which will begin in the Fall of 2003.