{"product_id":"9780809016068","title":"First Generations : Women in Colonial America","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Generations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Carol Berkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied roles as wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, rebels, and, ultimately, critical forces in shaping the new nation's culture and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“A revision, amplification, and synthesis of a rich succession of studies about every aspect of colonial society and culture. [Berkin] brings her subject down to earth . . . and shows sensitivity to the experiences of individual women . . . [First Generations] offers what Mary Beth Norton [author of Founding Mothers and Fathers] rightly calls 'the best available introduction to the lives of women in colonial and revolutionary America.'” —\u003ci\u003eEdmund S. Morgan, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780809016068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Hill and Wang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40656499409102,"sku":"9780809016068","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_06ce24ce-e235-4616-a91d-e13ed1f26bb8.jpg?v=1639448954","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780809016068","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}