{"product_id":"mothers-of-invention-women-of-the-slaveholding-south-in-the-american-civil-war-paperback-1","title":"Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDrew Gilpin Faust\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eSouthern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThis Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 686\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.37 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53525598961971,"sku":"9780807866160","price":97.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/D0sf2JVbI29780807866160.webp?v=1783111439","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/mothers-of-invention-women-of-the-slaveholding-south-in-the-american-civil-war-paperback-1","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}