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Title: The Prospect Before Her : A History of a Woman in Western Europe : 1500-1800 (Series) by Olwen Hufton ISBN: 0-679-76818-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 24 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent view of history
Comment: A history course in a University should be created around this book! So might insightful information about the day-to-day existence of people during this period in history. An incredible amount of information is provided in an easy-to-read format by the author. A must read for anyone interested in the histoy of women throughout the ages.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent overview of the lives of women in the past
Comment: If you want to thank your lucky stars for the things that are available to us in modern times, read this book. It is an excellent scholarly overview of the lives and times in the period it covers, but as well it is a fascinating book for anyone who enjoys reading about times past.
Each chapter addresses an area that was of interest to women of the times, and remain of interest today - health, cooking etc, and they are so complete in addressing the issues that they read like small essays on their own.
This is a really enjoyable book, and not just for its scholarly value.
Rating: 5
Summary: A huge subject in an easy to read format
Comment: The period 1500 - 1800 is marked with great social and political upheaval. Olwen Hufton has taken on a monumental task in trying to show, not only the various types of women within this period (rural, urban, old, young, wives, widows, spinsters) but also how their lives changed as society and politics changed (renaissance, industrial revolution, religous oppression). The result is an easy to read and entertaining book that gives a general picture of the women of Western Europe (using various surveys and censuses) as well as concentrating on specific areas to give a human face to the statistics (personal accounts, diaries). The extensive notes and bibliography make it usuful for those who wish to study more about this period.
An informative and entertaining read
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Title: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Merry E. Wiesner ISBN: 0521778220 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 03 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Burgermeister's Daughter : Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town by Steven Ozment ISBN: 0060977213 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Education of a Christian Woman: A Sixteenth-Century Manual (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Juan Luis Vives, Charles Fantazzi ISBN: 0226858154 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes by Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Natalie Zemon Davis, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Arlette Farge ISBN: 0674403673 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 25 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy ISBN: 0198207883 Publisher: Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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