When Women Ruled the World. Making the Renaissance in Europe, Hardback - Maureen (Duke University) Quilligan

A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious ...

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authorit...

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Publisher: American University in Cairo PressAuthor(s): Matthieu ReyNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 30Cover type:...

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Maureen Mahon documents the major contributions African American women vocalists such as Big Mama Thornton, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, and Merry Cla...

Blending dynamic live shots with intimate portraits and candids, Dancehall Days is a collection of over 300 stunning black-and-white photographs dr...

Maureen C. Miller traces the ways in which clerical garb changed over the Middle Ages. Miller goes into detail about craft, artistry, and textiles ...

This volume's contributors examine the perceptions of the staggering refuge and migration crisis in Europe, demonstrating how it stems from migrant...

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Marina Belozerskaya re-establishes the importance of the Burgundian court as a center of art production and patronage in early modern Europe. This ...

Benjamin Piekut tells the story of the English experimental rock band Henry Cow and how it linked its improvisational musical aesthetic with a coll...

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world ...

Tani Barlow outlines the stakes of what she calls "the event of women" in China-the discovery of the truth that women are the reproductive equivale...

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Investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Ameri...

Gabriella Lukacs traces how young Japanese women's unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, "girly" photographers, online traders, and cell phone novel...

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Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans,...

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This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest schola...

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Combines Bosnian women's personal testimony about the recent war and its aftermath with Ambassador Hunt's analysis of the U.S. government's appproa...

A pioneering study of the experiences and emotional lives of British prisoners of war in Germany and Italy during the Second World War. Clare Makep...

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DescriptionA revised and updated edition of the international bestsellerInspiring readers all over the globe to reimagine their future, this revise...

This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early mo...

Victoria was just 18 when she was crowned Queen in 1837 - a tiny figure, with a will of iron. Never was there so queenly a queen. She made Britain ...

Looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro-Caribbe...

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Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad, between expectations of fulfill...

A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian R...