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Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as...



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In Bonds of the Community Nancy Grey Osterud draws a richly textured account of the lives of nineteenth-century farm people of the Nanticoke Valley in New York State.

* Contemporary Sociology *

Osterud's work deserves careful attention from historians of women, rural life, and nineteenth-century American.

* American Historical Review *

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    Publisher: Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 21/05/1991
    ISBN13: 9780801497988, 978-0801497988
    ISBN10: 0801497981
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    Local history Gender studies: women and girls

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as...



    Trade Review

    In Bonds of the Community Nancy Grey Osterud draws a richly textured account of the lives of nineteenth-century farm people of the Nanticoke Valley in New York State.

    * Contemporary Sociology *

    Osterud's work deserves careful attention from historians of women, rural life, and nineteenth-century American.

    * American Historical Review *

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