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'THE PROSPECT BEFORE HER: HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST 1500-1800: HISTORY OF WOMEN IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1500-1800'

History

Hufton, Olwen

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Alfred A. Knopf. New York.

Privilege and Protest 1730-1789 (Fontana History of Europe)

Fontana Press Harpercollins

Originally presented at an annual Oxford lecture series organized by supporters of Amnesty International, the seven lectures provide historical perspective on the contemporary discussion of human rights. The essays deal with "the tension between natural law and history" i.e., the degree to which the universalist vision of human rights is a historically-constructed phenomenon. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Historical Change And Human Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1994 (The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1994)

Americas

Basic Books

Seven of the world's leading historians examine the relationship between historical change and the evolution of human rights.

Historical Change And Human Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1994

World

This book is an updated and revised edition of a classic introduction to one of the key periods in modern European history. Olwen Hufton not only illuminates the complex and significant events of the first era in which modernity is recognisable but provides the essential background to the revolutionary period that followed.

Europe: Privilege and Protest: 1730-1789

Business & Money

Economics

Wiley/Blackwell

Europe: Privilege and Protest: 1730-1789 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)

Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations.

The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500-1800

KNOPF

How did women in 16th century western Europe cope with the consequences of being considered inherently sinful--as well as being legally and economically subordinate to their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons? What might become of a woman unable to raise a dowry? What were the difficulties faced by spinsters, single mothers, and widows? In this brilliant investigation into the lives of women from all social strata, Hufton leads us from poor-house to palazzo, from cradle to grave, illuminating what it meant to be female in western Europe during the years 1500 to 1800.

Europe

Vintage

The French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women – those in rural areas and those in Paris – to the revolution's aftermath.Women were denied citizenship in the new state, but they were not apolitical. In Paris, collective female activity promoted a controlled economy as women struggled to secure an adequate supply of bread at a reasonable price. Rural women engaged in collective confrontation to undermine government religious policy which was destroying the networks of traditional Catholic charity.Hufton examines the motivations of these two groups, the strategies they used to advance their respective causes, and the bitter misogyinistic legacy of the republican tradition which persisted into the twentieth century.

Women and the Limits of Citizenship in in the French Revolution

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

The French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women – those in rural areas and those in Paris – to the revolution's aftermath.
 Women were denied citizenship in the new state, but they were not apolitical. In Paris, collective female activity promoted a controlled economy as women struggled to secure an adequate supply of bread at a reasonable price. Rural women engaged in collective confrontation to undermine government religious policy which was destroying the networks of traditional Catholic charity.
 Hufton examines the motivations of these two groups, the strategies they used to advance their respective causes, and the bitter misogyinistic legacy of the republican tradition which persisted into the twentieth century.

Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution (Heritage)

University of Toronto Press

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'THE PROSPECT BEFORE HER: HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST 1500-1800: HISTORY OF WOMEN IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1500-1800'

Privilege and Protest 1730-1789 (Fontana History of Europe)

Historical Change And Human Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1994 (The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1994)

Historical Change And Human Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1994

Europe: Privilege and Protest: 1730-1789

Europe: Privilege and Protest: 1730-1789 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)

The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500-1800

The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500-1800

Women and the Limits of Citizenship in in the French Revolution

Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution (Heritage)