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Gloria L. Main

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Gloria Lund Main (born 1933) is an American economic historian who was a professor of history at University of Colorado Boulder.

Main is from California. She was an economics graduate student at University of California, Berkeley where she was the only female graduate student. Main paused her studies to marry her former professor and have children. At the age of 40, she completed a Ph.D. in American history at Columbia University. After a few years lecturing part time in the New York City area, Main joined the faculty at University of Colorado Boulder. She applied her economics experience to her studies of colonial time periods.[1]

Selected works

  • Main, Gloria Lund (1982). Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04693-8.[2]
  • Main, Gloria L. (2001). Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00628-7.[3]

References

  1. ^ Pasquale, Cynthia (2015-08-06). "Five questions for Gloria Main". CU Connections. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  2. ^ Reviews of Tobacco Colony:
  3. ^ Reviews of Peoples of a Spacious Land: