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In the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two times in July 1848, a little group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, presented a convention that could launch the woman's rights movements and change the course of history. The implications of that exceptional convention would be sensed around the world - and even are still being sensed today. In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the girl Rights Movements, the latest contribution to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Occasions in American History series, Sally McMillen unpacks, for the very first time, the full need for that ground-breaking convention and the extensive changes it produced. The e book includes 50 years of women's activism, from 1840 to 1890, focusing on four extraordinary numbers: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Rock, and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen explains to the stories of these lives, how they came to take up the reason for women's privileges, the astonishing improvements they made throughout their lifetimes, and the long lasting and transformative ramifications of the task they did. In the convention, they asserted full equality with men, argued for better legal rights, better professional and education opportunities, and the right to vote - ideas considered wildly radical at that time. Indeed, looking back at the convention two years later, Anthony called it "the grandest and ideal reform of all time - and destined to be thus considered by the future historian." In such a energetic and warmly written study, Sally McMillen may be the future historian Anthony was searching for. A vibrant family portrait of a significant turning point in American women's history, and in history, this book is essential for anyone desperate to grasp the roots of the woman's rights movements.The "Pivotal Occasions in American History" series looks for to unite the old and the new history, combining the insights and techniques of recent historiography with the power of traditional narrative. Each subject has a strong narrative arc with dilemma, irony, suspense, and - most of all - great individuals who embody the human being dimension of historical occasions. The general editors of "Pivotal Occasions" are not simply historians; they are really popular authors themselves, and, in two conditions, Pulitzer Reward winners: David Hackett Fischer, James M. McPherson, and David Greenberg. Really is endless you like your American History offered up with verve, wit, and an eyeball for the revealing detail!
