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Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History
Anne (Ed) Walthall
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Description for Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History
Paperback. Investigates how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. It also helps understand how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women. Editor(s): Walthall, Anne. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 400 pages, 26 b/w photographs, 11 line illustrations, 8 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
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's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the ... Read more
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's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
California World History Library
Condition
New
Weight
646g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520254442
SKU
V9780520254442
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About Anne (Ed) Walthall
Anne Walthall is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Japan: A Cultural, Social, and Political History and The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration, among other books.
Reviews for Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History
This expansive collection... affords the first comprehensive review of the women who served in royal courts and palaces around the world, and thereby offers a welcome correction to our androcentric understanding of monarchies. The China Beat Blog Excellent.
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