A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigra

New York Public Library Teen Book List In colonial America, hard work proved a constant for most women—some ensured their family's survival through their skil

A social history of the American colonial period focuses on the daily lives of women, including European immigrants, Native Americans, and slaves, who played a

Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic