Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979
A Historian's Biography (Studies in Gender and History)
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7873806M
- ISBN-139780802080172
- ISBN-100802080170
- OCLC Control Number56318062
- Library of Congress Control Number2005281845
and 2 more
- Goodreads2400071
- LibraryThing9309541
Classifications
- LCCE175.5.B34R45 2005
Description
"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.
First Sentence
In January 1903, seventeen-year-old Viola Barns had just returned to Lincoln, Nebraska, to begin her second term at the University of Nebraska's music school.
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