Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history / edited by Anne Walthall.

Contributor(s):

Walthall, Anne

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The California world history library ; 7.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 381 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520941519
0520941519
1281752657
9781281752659
9786611752651
661175265X
1435684753
9781435684751

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Servants of the dynastyDDC classification:

306.84/109 22

LOC classification:

HQ1122

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Contents:

Women and the performance of power in early modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Watson Andaya -- Women in classic Maya royal courts / Takeshi Inomata -- Women and power at the Byzantine court / Kathryn M. Ringrose -- Beyond harem walls : Ottoman royal women and the exercise of power / Leslie P. Peirce -- Mughal palace women / Ruby Lal -- Politics in an African royal harem : women and seclusion at the royal court of Benin, Nigeria / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Qing imperial women : empresses, concubines, and Aisin Gioro daughters / Shuo Wang -- Royal women of Ivan IV's family and the meaning of forced tonsure / Isolde Thyrêt -- Servants of the inner quarters : the women of the Shogun's Great Interior / Hata Hisako -- Women of Versailles, 1682-1789 / Kathryn Norberg -- Concubines and cloth : women and weaving in Aztec palaces and colonial Mexico / Susan Toby Evans -- Women, royalty, and indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807 / Heidi J. Nast -- Gender and entertainment at the Song court / Beverly Bossler -- Vanished women of Korea : the anonymity of texts and the historicity of subjects / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Perils of the sentimental family for royalty in postrevolutionary France : the case of Queen Marie-Amélie / Jo Burr Margadant.

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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"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index.

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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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