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Gloria L. Main

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Gloria L. Main
Born
Gloria Jean Lund

OccupationEconomic historian
Spouse
(m. 1956; died 2003)
Children3
Academic background
Alma materSan Jose State College
Stony Brook University
Columbia University
Academic work
DisciplineColonial America, economic history
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado Boulder

Gloria Lund Main (née Lund; born 1933) is an American economic historian who is a professor emeritus of history at University of Colorado Boulder. She authored two books about the Thirteen Colonies.

Life

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Gloria Jean Lund was born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lund of Mount Hermon, California.[1][2] She graduated from Analy High School.[3] Lund completed her bachelor's degree at San Jose State College (now San Jose State University).[1] She was an economics graduate student at University of California, Berkeley where she was the only female graduate student. In 1956, Lund paused her studies to marry her former undergraduate professor, Jackson Turner Main, a grandson of historian Frederick Jackson Turner.[4][2] After their three children were school aged, she earned a M.A. from Stony Brook University.[1]

Influenced by her husband's field of study, Main completed a Ph.D. in American history at Columbia University.[5] Her 1972 dissertation on personal wealth in the Thirteen Colonies was the basis of her first book.[6] She applies her economics training to her studies of colonial time periods. After a few years of lecturing part time in the New York area, Main joined the faculty at University of Colorado Boulder. As of 2015, she is a professor emeritus.[5]

Selected works

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Books

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  • Main, Gloria Lund (1982). Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04693-8. OCLC 1012073027.[7]
  • 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. OCLC 1170133235.[8]

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gloria Main Earns Doctorate". Santa Cruz Sentinel. 1972-12-05. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-01-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b "Vital Statistics: Marriage Licenses Issued". The Times. 1956-06-16. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-01-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Do you know where these people are?". Sonoma West Times and News. 1976-04-22. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-01-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Obituary for Jackson Turner Main, 1917-2003". Wisconsin State Journal. 2003-10-26. p. 49. Retrieved 2021-01-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b Pasquale, Cynthia (2015-08-06). "Five questions for Gloria Main". CU Connections. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  6. ^ Main, Gloria L (1972). Personal wealth in colonial American; explorations in the use of probate records from Maryland and Massachusetts, 1650-1720 (Ph.D. thesis). New York: Columbia University. OCLC 79985693.
  7. ^ Reviews of Tobacco Colony:
  8. ^ Reviews of Peoples of a Spacious Land: