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Female alliances: gender, identity, and friendship in early modern Britain

By Herbert , Amanda E

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780300177404, 0300177402
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2712028 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Donne;Donne -- Condizioni sociali -- Gran bretagna

Description

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long eighteenth century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women's lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world.

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