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Emily Clark

Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-3122-9 $59.95
Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-5822-6 $22.50

Copyright 2007 by The University of North Carolina Press

An Award-Winning Book

  Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association (2007)

  Julia Cherry Spruill Prize of the Southern Association for Women Historians for the best book in southern women’s history. (2008)

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“Clark deepens our understanding of life in early New Orleans through this absorbing study of the Ursuline convent, a community of women who had a profound influence on colonial society. Her ability to draw eighteenth-century Louisiana insightfully into the wider examination of gender, class, race, and religion across the Atlantic world makes Masterless Mistresses a remarkable contribution to early American history.”

“Katrina reminded the nation of the extraordinary history of French and Spanish colonial New Orleans. As Clark shows in this richly textured study, women stood at the center of that history.”

“A superb book. . . . Clark’s bold and original study of the Ursuline community in New Orleans is deeply attuned to the rhythms and politics of religious life in the Old as well as the New World and to the changing racial and gendered dynamics of colonial Louisiana under three empires. The intricate meshing of local and transatlantic history is truly stunning.”