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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast 

byJoan DeJean

Centered on how french convicts became founding mothers of the gulf coast, Mutinous Women shows Joan DeJean tracing how individual lives intersect with institutions, ideas, and historical change. Mutinous Women combines biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of biography & autobiography and history, Mutinous Women explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, how french convicts became founding mothers of the gulf coast emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781541600584