Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979 : a historian's biography

The Resource Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979 : a historian's biography
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Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979 : a historian's biography
Title remainder
a historian's biography
Statement of responsibility
John G. Reid
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Language
eng
Summary
"Viola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born in 1885, Barnes was educated at Yale University and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 1919. She was an instrumental member of the 'imperial school' of historians, who interpreted North American colonial history within a British imperial framework." "In this probing biography, John G. Reid examines Barnes's life as a female historian, providing a revealing glimpse into the gendered experience of professional academia in that era. Reid also examines the imperial school, which, although rapidly losing favour by the 1950s, had yielded results that were crucial to the study of North American colonial history."--Jacket
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Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
NLC
Dewey number
907/.2/02
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
Index
index present
LC call number
E175.5.B368
LC item number
R44 2005
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Studies in gender and history
Series volume
25

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