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9781585444090

True Women & Westward Expansion

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  • ISBN13:

    9781585444090

  • ISBN10:

    158544409X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-05-20
  • Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

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Summary

Expansion was the fever of the early nineteenth century, and women burned with it as surely as men, although in a different way. Adrienne Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of some ninety Texas women to uncover the ideas and enthusiasms they brought to the Western frontier.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Domesticity and Expansionism
3(14)
Cultivating the ``Garden of the South-West''
17(21)
Women and Texas Independence
38(19)
Fighting for the Cause of Civilization
57(24)
A Feeling of Destiny
81(16)
Slavery and Expansion
97(20)
A Magnificent Empire
117(19)
Of Politics and True Womanhood
136(9)
Notes 145(20)
Bibliography 165(10)
Index 175

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