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The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 Hardback - 2008

Name: The Slender Thread – Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860
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Author: Keough, Willeen
ISBN: 9780231132022

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Through Meticulous research, a skillful layering of evidence, and the interweaving of traditional and nontraditional sources, Willeen Keough moves women to the center of North American migration and early settlement narratives. She explores the lives of Irish Newfoundland women who cofounded fishing communities along the southern Avalon Peninsula in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her work connects North American colonial history to a valuable historiography published in Canada and Ireland and opens up new areas of research into the gender roles and demographics of migration and settlement. In doing so, she makes a great contribution to colonial and women's history, as well as the history of the social division of labor, and writes a defining work that is extraordinary in its attention to the minutiae of women's everyday lives.

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Title The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860
Author Willeen Keough
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 560
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Columbia University Press
Publication date 2008-12-10
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Maps
ISBN 9780231132022 / 0231132026
Weight 2.14 lbs (0.97 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.38 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.51 cm)
Age range 22 to UP years
Grade levels 17 - UP
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Sociological
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects Ireland - Emigration and immigration -, Irish - Newfoundland and Labrador - Avalon
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008037640
Dewey Decimal Code 305.488

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Choice, 11/01/2009, Page 0
Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/23/2009, Page 19

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