| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Space, place, and society |
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Space, place, and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The frontiers of femininity -- Trains through the plains : the great plains landscape of Victorian women travelers -- Peak practices : Englishwomen's heroic adventures in the nineteenth-century American West -- Gender, nature, empire : women naturalists in nineteenth-century British women's travel literature (with Jeanne Kay Guelke) -- Surveying Britain's informal empire : Rose Kingsley's 1872 reconnaissance for the Mexican National Railway -- British women travelers and constructions of racial difference across the nineteenth-century American West -- Postcolonialism and Native American geographies : the letters of Rosalie La Flesche Farley, 1896-1899 -- Mining empire : journalists in the American West, circa 1870 -- Afterword: Imprints on a new historical geography of North America. |
| Subject |
Feminists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women's studies -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780815631675 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0815631677 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 12833612 |
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