ISBN:
0520941519
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9780520941519
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 381 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The California world history library 7
Parallel Title:
Print version Servants of the dynasty
DDC:
306.84109
Keywords:
Courtesans History
;
Courts and courtiers History
;
Ladies-in-waiting History
;
Favorites, Royal History
;
Harems History
;
Courtesans History
;
Courts and courtiers History
;
Ladies-in-waiting History
;
Favorites, Royal History
;
Harems History
;
Harems History
;
Courtesans History
;
Favorites, Royal History
;
Ladies-in-waiting History
;
Courts and courtiers History
;
Electronic books
;
HISTORY ; World
;
Courtesans
;
Courts and courtiers
;
Favorites, Royal
;
Harems
;
Ladies-in-waiting
;
History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Marriage & Family
;
Electronic books History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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
Note:
"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index. - Description based on print version record
,
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index
,
Women and the performance of power in early modern Southeast Asia
,
Women in classic Maya royal courts
,
Women and power at the Byzantine court
,
Beyond harem walls : Ottoman royal women and the exercise of power
,
Mughal palace women
,
Politics in an African royal harem : women and seclusion at the royal court of Benin, Nigeria
,
Qing imperial women : empresses, concubines, and Aisin Gioro daughters
,
Royal women of Ivan IV's family and the meaning of forced tonsure
,
Servants of the inner quarters : the women of the Shogun's Great Interior
,
Women of Versailles, 1682-1789
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Concubines and cloth : women and weaving in Aztec palaces and colonial Mexico
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Women, royalty, and indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807
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Gender and entertainment at the Song court
,
Vanished women of Korea : the anonymity of texts and the historicity of subjects
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Perils of the sentimental family for royalty in postrevolutionary France : the case of Queen Marie-Amélie
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