| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 381 pages) |
| Series |
The California world history library ; 7 |
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California world history library ; 7.
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| Contents |
Women and the performance of power in early modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Watson Andaya -- Women in classic Maya royal courts / Takeshi Inomata -- Women and power at the Byzantine court / Kathryn M. Ringrose -- Beyond harem walls : Ottoman royal women and the exercise of power / Leslie P. Peirce -- Mughal palace women / Ruby Lal -- Politics in an African royal harem : women and seclusion at the royal court of Benin, Nigeria / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Qing imperial women : empresses, concubines, and Aisin Gioro daughters / Shuo Wang -- Royal women of Ivan IV's family and the meaning of forced tonsure / Isolde Thyrêt -- Servants of the inner quarters : the women of the Shogun's Great Interior / Hata Hisako -- Women of Versailles, 1682-1789 / Kathryn Norberg -- Concubines and cloth : women and weaving in Aztec palaces and colonial Mexico / Susan Toby Evans -- Women, royalty, and indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807 / Heidi J. Nast -- Gender and entertainment at the Song court / Beverly Bossler -- Vanished women of Korea : the anonymity of texts and the historicity of subjects / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Perils of the sentimental family for royalty in postrevolutionary France : the case of Queen Marie-Amélie / Jo Burr Margadant |
| Summary |
Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women |
| Notes |
"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-358) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Courtesans -- History
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Courts and courtiers -- History
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Ladies-in-waiting -- History
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Favorites, Royal -- History
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Harems -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Courtesans
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Courts and courtiers
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Favorites, Royal
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Harems
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Ladies-in-waiting
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walthall, Anne
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| LC no. |
2021696976 |
| ISBN |
9780520941519 |
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0520941519 |
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1281752657 |
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9781281752659 |
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9786611752651 |
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661175265X |
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1435684753 |
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9781435684751 |
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