Virginia Bartlett, Jack D. Warren (University of Virginia, USA)
This book is a fascinating re-creation of the lives of women in the time of great social change that followed the end of the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania. Many decades passed before a desolate and violent frontier was transformed into a stable region of farms and towns. "Keeping House: Women s Lives in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1850 "tells how the daughters, wives, and mothers who crossed the Allegheny Mountains responded and adapted to unaccustomed physical and psychological hardships as they established lives for themselves and their families in their new...
This book is a fascinating re-creation of the lives of women in the time of great social change that followed the end of the French and Indian War ...
