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Southern Ladies and Suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair /
Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of women's affairs and industry. Their conversations and interactions played out as a dram...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson [Mississippi] :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of women's affairs and industry. Their conversations and interactions played out as a drama of personalities and sectionalism at a transitional moment in the history of the nation. These women planted seeds at the Exposition that would have otherwise taken decades to drift southward. This book chronicles the successes and setbacks of a lively cast of postbellum women in the first Woman's Department at. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781626740730 |