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Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | California world history library ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | "An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Page 4 of cover |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 381 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-358) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520941519 0520941519 1281752657 9781281752659 9786611752651 661175265X 1435684753 9781435684751 |