Lineage and family in colonial America -- The rise of American genealogy -- Antebellum blood and vanity -- "Upon the love of country and pride of race" -- Pedigrees and the market -- Everybody's search for roots.
Summary
Traces the history of genealogy in the United States, from its early preoccupation with social status and lineage, to a nineteenth-century search for Anglo-Saxon roots, to a twentieth-century acceptance of diversity and the introduction of DNA technology.
Folklore and American Studies, Pennsylvania State University,
Date of Publication
1989
Physical Description
volume 6 28 cm
Publication Frequency
Annual, 1990-
Dates of Publication
Vol. 6, no. 2 Fall 1989
Contents
"The Clapboard Lifted:" Henry Chapman Mercer and the origin of an American log building style / by Scott H. Suter. pp. 76-88. "The Mercer Museum and the Landis Valley Farm Museum : exhibitions of typology and ethnicity in Pennsylvania." / by Ruth Ann Cary. pp. 38-75.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-220) and index.
Contents
The Rights of Woman -- Female Politicians -- Patriotism and Partisanship -- Women and the "War of Politics" -- A Democracy--For Whom? -- Epilogue: Memory and Forgetting.
Summary
"The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. The debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, Rosemarie Zagarri explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson." "Spanning the first fifty years of the nation's history, Revolutionary Backlash uncovers women's forgotten role in early American politics and explores alternative meanings for the rise of democracy in the early United States."--BOOK JACKET.
