Servants of the dynasty [electronic resource] : palace women in world history / edited by Anne Walthall.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | California world history library ;
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | "An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 381 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-358) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520941519 0520941519 1281752657 9781281752659 9786611752651 661175265X 1435684753 9781435684751 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |