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Comstock Women

Comstock Women

Making of a Mining Community
Buch | Softcover
1997
University of Nevada Press (Verlag)
978-0-87417-297-3 (ISBN)
CHF 46,95 inkl. MwSt
This collection of essays by scholars from several disciplines examines the lives of the women, from all social classes and many ethnicities, who settled on the Comstock Lode and struggled to create a stable community in that transient boomtown setting.
When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, who include some of Nevada’s most prominent historians, demographers, and archaeologists, explore such topics as women and politics, jobs, and ethnic groups. Their work goes far in refuting the exaggerated popular images of women in early mining towns as dance hall girls or prostitutes. Relying primarily on newspapers, court decisions, census records, as well as sparse personal diaries and records left by the woman, the essayists have resurrected the lives of the women who lived on the Comstock during the boom years.

Ronald M. James is the author or co-author of ten books, and he received the Wilbur S. Shepperson Humanities Book Award in 1998. His articles on history, folklore, and archaeology have appeared in six countries, and he has lectured on western history throughout the nation. James also lectures occasionally at the University of Nevada, Reno in history and folklore. He is the chairman of the National Historic Landmarks Committee for the National Park Service, and he served as Nevada’s State Historic Preservation Officer for three decades. Elizabeth Raymond is professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Raymond teaches undergraduate and graduate course work in U.S. history, including Social History, Intellectual History, Women and Families in the U.S., Colonial History, and a senior capstone course on Creating North American Landscapes. Graduate seminars include Nature and Culture in America, Gender in U.S. History, and U.S. Social History.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.12.1997
Zusatzinfo 25 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 34 illustrations
Verlagsort Reno
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 333 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-87417-297-7 / 0874172977
ISBN-13 978-0-87417-297-3 / 9780874172973
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