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Smith, Bonnie G., 1940- author.

Women in world history : 1450 to the present / Bonnie G. Smith.

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

©2020

329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women's relationship to world developments over the past five hundred years. Women have served the world as unfree people, often forced to migrate as slaves, trafficked sex workers, and indentured laborers working off debts. Diseases have migrated through women's bodies and women themselves have deliberately spread religious belief and fervor as well as ideas. They have been global authors, soldiers, and astronauts encircling the globe and moving far beyond it. They have written classics in political and social thought and crafted literary and artistic works alongside others who were revolutionaries and reform-minded activists. Historical scholarship has shown that there is virtually no part of the world where women's presence is not manifest, whether in archives, oral testimonials, personal papers, the material record, evidence of disease and famine, myth and religious teachings, and myriad other forms of documentation. As these studies mount, the idea of surveying women's past on a global basis becomes daunting. This book aims to redress this situation and offer a synthetic world history of women in modern times.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Productive and reproductive lives, c. 1450-1600 -- Early modern structures of power -- Imagining their world, 1450-1700 -- Productive life across a connected globe, 1500-1750 -- Populations, ideas, and the industrious revolution, 1600-1800 -- Revolts, revolutions, and the rise of new states, 1650-1830 -- Industrialization and work in a global society, 1800-1914 -- The lure of modernity, 1830-1914 -- Expanding empires, resisting empires, 1870-1914 -- Global warfare, 1914-45 -- Creating new nations, decolonizing women -- Women's globalization in a high-tech age.

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