Stephanie Mccurry: 2 books
Masters of Small Worlds
Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 1995
In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small...
Women’s War
Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield realities soon challenged this simplistic understanding of women’s place in war. Stephanie McCurry shows that women were indispensable to the unfolding of the Civil War, as they have been—and continue to be—in all wars.