Women and the vote : a world history /

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 w...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Adams, Jad (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Édition:First edition.
Sujets:
Women > Suffrage > History.
Women's rights > History.
Electronic books.
Femmes > Suffrage > Histoire.
Femmes > Droits > Histoire.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Women > Suffrage
Women's rights
Frauenwahlrecht
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Democracy before democracy
  • The rights of man
  • Early British radicals
  • The rise of the middle-class campaigner
  • New-found rights in new-found lands
  • "In with our women" in the Western US
  • Out of the doll's house in Scandinavia
  • Lobbyists to militants in Britain
  • Victory and disenfranchisement in the US
  • Who won votes from the war?
  • The Pope and the vote : Catholic Europe
  • Latin American mothers of the nation
  • The enfranchisement of the East
  • Africa and the Cold War
  • The veiled vote.

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