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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xi, 381 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Courtesans--History.
Courts and courtiers--History.
Ladies-in-waiting--History.
Favorites, Royal--History.
Harems--History.

Other Authors:

Walthall, Anne.

Notes:

"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index.

Contents:

Perils of the sentimental family for royalty in postrevolutionary France : the case of Queen Marie-Amélie / Jo Burr Margadant. 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.

Series:

The California world history library ; 7

ISBN:

0520254449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520254442 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520254430 (alk. paper)
9780520254435 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)178270713

LCCN:

2007051011

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)