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European Studies Speaker: Women's Alliances in Britain's Early Empire
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, European women and men faced new social challenges as their countries explored, conquered, and expanded across the Atlantic and Pacific. In early modern Britain, face-to-face interactions were replaced by long-distance networks of correspondence, the exchange of gifts and medicines, and trade in new "exotic" goods. And it was to early modern women, who's supposedly "gentle" and "loving" natures were thought to make them particularly inclined towards sociability, that many of these new communicative responsibilities fell. This talk explores women's alliances and friendships in the early modern British world, demonstrating that not only were these relationships central to women's lives and experiences, they were also crucial in the building of Britain's earliest empires. Dr. Herbert is the author of the book Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain (Yale, 2014). For more information, please contact Dr. Abigail Swingen, Department of History (abigail.swingen@ttu.edu).
Posted:
9/19/2014

Originator:
Abigail Swingen

Email:
abigail.swingen@ttu.edu

Department:
History

Event Information
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Date: 9/26/2014

Location:
Holden Hall 38


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