Reviews
"Marsh refines our understanding of how the southern frontier became the South, giving his fellow historians a revised chronology and a new understanding of gender's role in colonization to ponder."--American Historical Review, "Ranging from Georgia's founding in the 1730s until the American Revolution in the 1770s, Georgia's Frontier Women explores women's changing roles amid the developing demographic, economic, and social circumstances of the colony's settling. . . . Ben Marsh tells a complex story of narrowing opportunities for Georgia's women as the colony evolved from uncertainty to stability in the face of sporadic warfare, changes in government, land speculation, and the arrival of slaves and immigrants in growing numbers."-Bob Edmonds, McCormick Messenger, "Marsh provides a readable and compelling work on Georgia's formative years and effectively uses family and gender to help explain the colony's transformation into a southern stronghold." -- H-Net Reviews, "Marsh has given us a fresh and important look not only at women's changing economic and cultural worlds in colonial Georgia, but at the dynamic and complex nature of colonial Georgia as a whole. Given its scope and its ambitiousness,Georgia's Frontier Womenis certain to become one of the most authoritative books on colonial Georgia for some time."--Michele Gillespie, Professor of History, Wake Forest University, "Marsh provides a readable and compelling work on Georgia's formative years and effectively uses family and gender to help explain the colony's transformation into a southern stronghold." - H-Net Reviews, "Marsh has given us a fresh and important look not only at women's changing economic and cultural worlds in colonial Georgia, but at the dynamic and complex nature of colonial Georgia as a whole. Given its scope and its ambitiousness, Georgia's Frontier Women is certain to become one of the most authoritative books on colonial Georgia for some time."--Michele Gillespie, Professor of History, Wake Forest University, "Marsh's engaging study of early Georgia explores both the lives of women and the expectations of womanhood from the colony's origins through the era of the American Revolution. . . . Marsh's study will be an edifying, thought-provoking read for colonial and women's historians as well as anyone curious about Georgia's early history. His thorough engagement of sources . . . is a model of rigorous enquiry. And the book is written in a lively style, which will make it engaging to lay readers and undergraduates as well as professional historians."--Georgia Historical Quarterly, "An important and welcome addition to the literature on Georgia's history. Because this work addresses the critical role of women in the Georgia colony, it fills a significant gap in our understanding of Georgia's settlement."--Lee Ann Caldwell, Professor of History, Georgia College & State University, "Marsh's evocatively written examination of female experience in early Georgia restores women to their rightful role as principal players in the transformation of early Georgia into a southern slave society. It is a startingly fresh look at a surprisingly complicated place with important implications for our understanding of plantation worlds.Georgia's Frontier Womensignificantly advances our understanding of both women in eighteenth-century British America and also Georgia's uneven settlement and early development."--Trevor Graeme Burnard, author ofMastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World, "Marsh's engaging study of early Georgia explores both the lives of women and the expectations of womanhood from the colony's origins through the era of the American Revolution. . . . Marsh's study will be an edifying, thought-provoking read for colonial and women's historians as well as anyone curious about Georgia's early history. His thorough engagement of sources . . . is a model of rigorous enquiry. And the book is written in a lively style, which will make it engaging to lay readers and undergraduates as well as professional historians."-- Georgia Historical Quarterly, "Marsh provides a readable and compelling work on Georgia's formative years and effectively uses family and gender to help explain the colony's transformation into a southern stronghold." -H-Net Reviews, "Marsh's evocatively written examination of female experience in early Georgia restores women to their rightful role as principal players in the transformation of early Georgia into a southern slave society. It is a startingly fresh look at a surprisingly complicated place with important implications for our understanding of plantation worlds. Georgia's Frontier Women significantly advances our understanding of both women in eighteenth-century British America and also Georgia's uneven settlement and early development."--Trevor Graeme Burnard, author of Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World, "Ranging from Georgia's founding in the 1730s until the American Revolution in the 1770s, Georgia's Frontier Women explores women's changing roles amid the developing demographic, economic, and social circumstances of the colony's settling. . . . Ben Marsh tells a complex story of narrowing opportunities for Georgia's women as the colony evolved from uncertainty to stability in the face of sporadic warfare, changes in government, land speculation, and the arrival of slaves and immigrants in growing numbers."--Bob Edmonds, McCormick Messenger, "Marsh refines our understanding of how the southern frontier became the South, giving his fellow historians a revised chronology and a new understanding of gender's role in colonization to ponder."-- American Historical Review
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Sociology / General, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Women's Studies
