Bonds of Community by Nancy Grey Osterud

Bonds of Community by Nancy Grey Osterud

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Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as...

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Bonds of Community by Nancy Grey Osterud

Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as...

In Bonds of the Community Nancy Grey Osterud draws a richly textured account of the lives of nineteenth-century farm people of the Nanticoke Valley in New York State

* Contemporary Sociology *

Osterud's work deserves careful attention from historians of women, rural life, and nineteenth-century American.

* American Historical Review *

Nancy Grey Osterud is Assistant Professor of History at San Jose State University.

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ISBN 13 9780801497988
ISBN 10 0801497981
Title Bonds of Community
Author Nancy Grey Osterud
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cornell University Press
Year published 1991-05-21
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.