Envisioning Women in World History: Prehistory to 1500
ISBN: 9780073513225 | 0073513229
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 1/22/2008
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Part of McGraw-Hill's "Explorations in World History" series, this brief and accessible volume presents a comparative survey of the early history of women from a global perspective. Each chapter, which can be read independently of the others, examines the experiences of women in one of seven civilizations typically covered in an introductory world history text: pre-agricultural societies, the Ancient Mediterranean, Gupta India/Southeast Asia, Tang/Song China, Maya and Aztec cultures, early Islam through the Abbasid caliphate, and Europe in the ... MORE
| Note from the Series Editors | p. iv |
| Acknowledgments | p. vi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Women in Eurasia before 1000 bce | p. 6 |
| Women in the Ancient Mediterranean: Classical Greece and Imperial Rome (ca. 500 bce-500 ce) | p. 32 |
| The Heritage of the Gupta Empire: India and Southeast Asia (ca. 320 bce-1500 ce) | p. 62 |
| Women in Tang and Song China (618-1279 ce) | p. 93 |
| Meso-American... MORE | p. 125 |
| Women in the Islamic World: Pre-Islamic Arabia to Abbasid Caliphate (ca. 500-1258 ce) | p. 153 |
| Western Europe in the Central and Late Middle Ages (1050-1500 ce) | p. 182 |
| Conclusion | p. 213 |
| Notes | p. 219 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 227 |
| Index | p. 231 |
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