Carol Berkins multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied roles as wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, rebels, and, ultimately, critical forces in shaping the new nations culture and history.About the Author:Carol Berkin is Professor of History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, Womens Voices/Womens Lives: Documents in Early American History, and coeditor, with Mary Beth Norton, of Women of America: A History.