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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty (edizione 2007)di Jean Zimmerman (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty di Jean Zimmerman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A fascinating portrait of life in colonial New York, as seen through the lives of four of its women. Somehow Jean Zimmerman has pulled flesh-and-blood characters out of historical obscurity and rendered them real. Don't read this book just becasue it's good that women are finally getting the attention of serious, interesting historians -- read it because it is a good book.
A portrait of an ambitious seventeenth-century woman merchant documents how she built a trading empire in New Amsterdam while managing a home that included her five children. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Despite its flaws, I am glad that I read the book since I have New Amsterdam and New Netherlands ancestry. The book’s main strength is the social history of Colonial New York and families like the Philipses who built fortunes during that era. My ancestors weren’t in the same social circles as the Philipse family, but it’s likely that they would have done business with them at some point. At the very least, they would have used the Philipse family’s toll bridge that linked Manhattan to Westchester County and the outlying farmland. ( )