Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/zql8UM Servants of the Dynasty Palace Women in World History By: Anne Walthall Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520254435, 0520254430 eText ISBN: 9780520941519, 0520941519 Edition: 1st Pages: 400 Copyright year: 2008 Format: PDF Available from $ 34.95 USD SKU 9780520941519 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's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women. Additional ISBNs 9780520254442, 0520254449
