ISBN:
0520254449
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9780520254442
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9780520254435
,
0520254430
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xi, 381 p)
,
ill., maps
,
23 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
The California world history library 7
Serie:
California World History Library v.7
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Servants of the Dynasty : Palace Women in World History
DDC:
306.84/109
Schlagwort(e):
Favorites, Royal History
;
Ladies-in-waiting History
;
Courtesans History
;
Harems History
;
Courts and courtiers History
;
Harems - History
;
Harems - History
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
Kurzfassung:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introducing Palace Women; 1. Women and the Performance of Powerin Early Modern Southeast Asia; 2. Women in Classic Maya Royal Courts; 3. Women and Power at the Byzantine Court; 4. Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power; 5. Mughal Palace Women; 6. Politics in an African Royal Harem: Women and Seclusion at the Royal Courtof Benin, Nigeria; 7. Qing Imperial Women: Empresses, Concubines, and Aisin Gioro Daughters; 8. The Royal Women of Ivan IV's Family and the Meaning of Forced Tonsure
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
9. Servants of the Inner Quarters: The Women of the Shogun's Great Interior10. Women of Versailles, 1682-1789; 11. Concubines and Cloth: Women and Weaving in Aztec Palaces and Colonial Mexico; 12. Women, Royalty, and Indigo Dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807; 13. Gender and Entertainment at the Song Court; 14. The Vanished Women of Korea: The Anonymity of Texts and the Historicity of Subjects; 15. The Perils of the Sentimental Family for Royalty in Postrevolutionary France: The Case of Queen Marie-Amélie; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Anmerkung:
"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
California scholarship online
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