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Masterless Mistresses : The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press SeriesPublisher: Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9798890876539
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Masterless MistressesDDC classification:
  • 271/.974076335
LOC classification:
  • BX4543.U6C53 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Prelude. Old World Origins: Female Piety and Social Imperatives in Europe -- PART 1. TRANSPLANTATIONS: THE FRENCH LEGACY -- 1. Making a Match: The Ursuline Mission to New Orleans -- 2. The Order Was Well Kept: Creating and Sustaining Community -- 3. Inner Spirit, Outward Signs: French Feminine Piety at Work -- PART 2. TRANSFORMATIONS: OLD WORLD TO NEW -- 4. Differences of Nation and Mentality: Testing the Bonds of Community -- 5. It Is the Custom of the Country: The Ursuline Encounter with Slavery -- 6. The Wages of Zeal: Change and the Convent Economy -- PART 3. CONFRONTATIONS: A CATHOLIC COLONY MEETS A PROTESTANT NATION -- 7. The Republic Encounters the Nun -- Epilogue. A Woman of Masculine Appearance and Character: Antebellum Anti-Catholicism -- Appendix 1. Convent Population, 1727-1803 -- Appendix 2. Ursuline Slave Families -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Prelude. Old World Origins: Female Piety and Social Imperatives in Europe -- PART 1. TRANSPLANTATIONS: THE FRENCH LEGACY -- 1. Making a Match: The Ursuline Mission to New Orleans -- 2. The Order Was Well Kept: Creating and Sustaining Community -- 3. Inner Spirit, Outward Signs: French Feminine Piety at Work -- PART 2. TRANSFORMATIONS: OLD WORLD TO NEW -- 4. Differences of Nation and Mentality: Testing the Bonds of Community -- 5. It Is the Custom of the Country: The Ursuline Encounter with Slavery -- 6. The Wages of Zeal: Change and the Convent Economy -- PART 3. CONFRONTATIONS: A CATHOLIC COLONY MEETS A PROTESTANT NATION -- 7. The Republic Encounters the Nun -- Epilogue. A Woman of Masculine Appearance and Character: Antebellum Anti-Catholicism -- Appendix 1. Convent Population, 1727-1803 -- Appendix 2. Ursuline Slave Families -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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