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Women and the Vote: A World History
Jad Adams
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Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of women and the vote, it takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present day, revealing startling new connections across time and national boundaries - from Europe and North America to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Muslim world ... Read more
Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of women and the vote, it takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present day, revealing startling new connections across time and national boundaries - from Europe and North America to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Muslim world ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198706854
SKU
V9780198706854
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About Jad Adams
Jad Adams is an independent historian specializing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of English, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and a Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. His books include major biographies of Tony Benn, of Gandhi, and a composite biography of the Nehru dynasty. A frequent reviewer ... Read more
Reviews for Women and the Vote: A World History
Review from previous edition Impressive in its reach, authoritative in its meticulous research, Jad Adams's world history of women's enfranchisement takes his reader from early political and feminist stirrings in mid-19th-century Europe and America and up to the present day.
Rebecca K. Morrison, Independent
Jad Adams account of the global history of the fight for womens suffrage tells ... Read more
Rebecca K. Morrison, Independent
Jad Adams account of the global history of the fight for womens suffrage tells ... Read more