Women in world history 1450 to the present /
Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women's relationship to world developments over the past five hundred years. Women have served the...
| Main Author: | Smith, Bonnie G., 1940- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2020.
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| Physical Description: |
329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Productive and reproductive lives, c. 1450-1600
- Early modern structures of power
- Imagining their world, 1450-1700
- Productive life across a connected globe, 1500-1750
- Populations, ideas, and the industrious revolution, 1600-1800
- Revolts, revolutions, and the rise of new states, 1650-1830
- Industrialization and work in a global society, 1800-1914
- Lure of modernity, 1830-1914
- Expanding empires, resisting empires, 1870-1914
- Global warfare, 1914-45
- Creating new nations, decolonizing women
- Women's globalization in a high-tech age.