Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast

This book is a valuable addition to the scholarship of early America, women and gender studies, and borderland history, as it more fully illuminates women's active martial activities than previous studies of this time and place. It is also useful to those seeking a better understanding of how later histories changed the historical narrative to support late-18th- and early-19th-century gendered ideologies.--Choice

Contributes new ways of thinking about early modern women's contributions in war.--William and Mary Quarterly

Martino's slim volume elucidates the complex place of colonial women along with the changing official attitudes to these women's actions. . . . Truly an important contribution.--American Historical Review

Martino's book offers an exciting example of borderlands history, drawing together diverse sources and perspectives. . . . A valuable and interesting story of change over time. . .[That] enriches our understanding of two centuries of military conflict in early America." --Canadian Journal of History

Offers new perspectives on how women's participation in warfare was called upon and then selectively forgotten or commemorated in this early North American history. . . . This book establishes Martino as an original and creative scholar of gender and warfare in early North America." --The New England Quarterly