| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony. By Ben Marsh. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xvi, 253 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2882-9.)

If explanation is where the mind alights then scholars of colonial Georgia will be thoroughly engaged by Ben Marsh's Georgia Frontier Women. In this impressive synthetic and analytic text Marsh states that his goal is to "construct a comprehensive account of women's contributions to the demographic, economic, and social processes of settling the youngest of the British Colonies that declared their independence on 1776" (p. 2). The author accomplishes that goal admirably by synthesizing the existing scholarship, analyzing a vast array of primary sources, and, to the delight of Cliometricians, including demographic data.

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