Immigrant Women in the Settlement of Missouri /
"Focuses on the lives of immigrant women in Missouri from the colonial period to the Civil War to industrialization. Draws heavily on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of immigrant women from many social classes and ethnic backgrounds and contains photographs and narratives relating to immigran...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Immigrant settlement in Missouri
- Women immigrants
- Women in early French villages
- Women in colonial St. Louis
- Journey to Missouri
- Life in early St. Louis
- Immigrant women on the frontier
- German women and the church
- Immigrant women in religious orders
- Women and the civil war
- Immigration after the civil war
- Immigrant farm families
- Town life
- Immigrant neighborhoods in St. Louis
- Women and work in industrializing Missouri
- The first decades of the twentieth century
- Missouri's patchwork quilt.