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All Shook Up: How Rock 'N' Roll Changed Americaby Glenn C. AltschulerISBN 0195177495 (0-19-517749-5)
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As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and brought "race music" into many white homes for the first time. Elvis freely credited blacks with originating the music he sang and some of the great early rockers were African American, most notably, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. In addition, rock celebrated romance and sex, rattled the reticent by pushing sexuality into the public arena, and mocked deferred gratification and the obsession with work of men in gray flannel suits. And it delighted in the separate world of the teenager and deepened the divide between the generations, helping teenagers differentiate themselves from others. Altschuler includes vivid biographical sketches of the great rock 'n rollers, including Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly--plus their white-bread doppelgangers such as Pat Boone.
Rock 'n roll seemed to be everywhere during the decade, exhilarating, influential, and an outrage to those Americans intent on wishing away all forms of dissent and conflict. As vibrant as the music itself, All Shook Up reveals how rock 'n roll challenged and changed American culture and laid the foundation for the social upheaval of the sixties. [via]More editions of All Shook Up: How Rock 'N' Roll Changed America:
The American People in the Great Depression Pt. 1 : Freedom from Fearby David M. KennedyISBN 0195168925 (0-19-516892-5)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Basket, Bag, and Trolley: A History of Shopping in Australiaby Beverley KingstonISBN 0195535103 (0-19-553510-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Battle Scars: Gender And Sexuality in the American Civil Warby Catherine Clinton, Nina SilberISBN 0195174445 (0-19-517444-5)
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Behind the Veil: Ceremonies, Customs and Colourby Shaista Suhrawardy IkramullahISBN 0195774191 (0-19-577419-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Berkeley at War: The 1960sby W. J. RorabaughISBN 0195066677 (0-19-506667-7)
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Camdenby Alan AtkinsonISBN 0195549511 (0-19-554951-1)
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Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and American National Characterby William Robert TaylorISBN 0195082842 (0-19-508284-2)
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Communities of Dissent: A History of Alternative Religions in Americaby Stephen J. SteinISBN 0195158253 (0-19-515825-3)
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United Statesby Kenneth T. JacksonISBN 0195132874 (0-19-513287-4)
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, John TorpeyISBN 0195158458 (0-19-515845-8)
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The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940sby Kevin StarrISBN 0195157974 (0-19-515797-4)
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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains In The 1930sby Donald WorsterISBN 0195174887 (0-19-517488-7)
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The Early American Republic: 1789-1829by Paul JohnsonISBN 0195154231 (0-19-515423-1)
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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New Englandby John P. DemosISBN 0195174836 (0-19-517483-6)
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Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt Of 1692by Richard GodbeerISBN 0195161300 (0-19-516130-0)
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Drawing on eye-witness testimony, Godbeer tells the story of Kate Branch, a seventeen-year-old afflicted by strange visions and given to blood-chilling wails of pain and fright. Branch accused several women of bewitching her, two of whom were put on trial for witchcraft. The book takes us inside the courtroom--and inside the minds of the surprisingly skeptical Stamford townfolk. Was the pain and screaming due to natural causes, or to supernatural causes? Was Branch simply faking the symptoms? And if she was bewitched, why believe her specific accusations, since her information came from demons who might well be lying? For the judges, Godbeer shows, the trial was a legal thicket. All agreed that witches posed a real and serious threat, but proving witchcraft (an invisible crime) in court was another matter. The court in Salem had become mired in controversy over its use of dubious evidence. In an intriguing passage, Godbeer examines Magistrate Jonathan Selleck's notes on how to determine the guilt of someone accused of witchcraft--an illuminating look at what constituted proof of witchcraft at the time. The stakes were high--if found guilty, the two accused women would be hanged.
In the afterword, Godbeer explains how he used the trial evidence to build his narrative, an inside look at the historian's craft that enhances this wonderful account of life in colonial New England. [via]More editions of Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt Of 1692:
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Europe: A Historyby Norman DaviesISBN 0195209125 (0-19-520912-5)
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise And Fall Of The Progressive Movement In America, 1870-1920by Michael McGerrISBN 0195183657 (0-19-518365-7)
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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame And Its Historyby Leo BraudyISBN 0195051785 (0-19-505178-5)
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Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergency of the New South, 1865-1913by Gaines M. FosterISBN 0195054202 (0-19-505420-2)
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974by James T. PattersonISBN 0195117972 (0-19-511797-2)
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Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in Historyby Barbara A. HanawaltISBN 0195093844 (0-19-509384-4)
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Now, in Growing Up in Medieval London, Hanawalt again reveals the larger, fuller, more dramatic life of the common people, in this instance, the lives of children in London. Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources, and books of advice, Hanawalt weaves a rich tapestry of the life of London youth during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Much of what she finds is eye opening. She shows for instance that--contrary to the belief of some historians--medieval adults did recognize and pay close attention to the various stages of childhood and adolescence. For instance, manuals on childrearing, such as "Rhodes's Book of Nurture" or "Seager's School of Virtue," clearly reflect the value parents placed in laying the proper groundwork for a child's future. Likewise, wardship cases reveal that in fact London laws granted orphans greater protection than do our own courts.
Hanawalt also breaks ground with her innovative narrative style. To bring medieval childhood to life, she creates composite profiles, based on the experiences of real children, which provide a more vivid portrait than otherwise possible of the trials and tribulations of medieval youths at work and at play. We discover through these portraits that the road to adulthood was fraught with danger. We meet Alison the Bastard Heiress, whose guardians married her off to their apprentice in order to gain control of her inheritance. We learn how Joan Rawlyns of Aldenham thwarted an attempt to sell her into prostitution. And we hear the unfortunate story of William Raynold and Thomas Appleford, two mercer's apprentices who found themselves forgotten by their senile master, and abused by his wife. These composite portraits, and many more, enrich our understanding of the many stages of life in the Middle Ages.
Written by a leading historian of the Middle Ages, these pages evoke the color and drama of medieval life. Ranging from birth and baptism, to apprenticeship and adulthood, here is a myth-shattering, innovative work that illuminates the nature of childhood in the Middle Ages. [via]More editions of Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History:
Handbook To Life In Ancient Greeceby Lesley Adkins, Roy A. AdkinsISBN 019512491X (0-19-512491-X)
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Handbook To Life In Ancient Mesopotamiaby Stephen BertmanISBN 0195183649 (0-19-518364-9)
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A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar Americaby Harvard Sitkoff, William Henry ChafeISBN 0195066162 (0-19-506616-2)
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A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar Americaby William H. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff, William Henry ChafeISBN 019508277X (0-19-508277-X)
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A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Presentby Bonnie S Anderson, Judith P. ZinsserISBN 0195128389 (0-19-512838-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present'Book summary:This classic two-volume history is an exciting and revolutionary look at women's history from prehistoric times to the present. Its unique organization focuses on the developments, achievements, and changes in women's roles in society. Rather than examining women's history as an inevitable progression of events along a strict timeline, this text is organized within a loose chronology, with chapters focusing on women's place and function in society. This revised edition provides a new introduction, an updated epilogue on women's lives in Europe since 1988, and a completely revised bibliography that includes recent scholarship. A History of Their Own restores women to the historical record, brings their history into focus, and provides models of female action and heroism. Lively and engaging, this new edition takes readers on a fascinating journey through women's history and the changing roles they have played. In addition it is an ideal text for general courses in women's studies and women's history and more specialized courses focusing on women in European history.
Volume One covers women's history from the prehistoric period to the seventeenth century. It includes topics such as the treatment of and attitudes about women during earliest recorded history; the alternating forces of empowerment and subordination imposed on women by ancient religions and the emergence of Christianity; peasant women's daily experiences of childbirth, family life, and field labor; women's religious lives; and the contrast between the lives of noblewomen and the lives of townswomen in early modern Europe. [via]More editions of A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present:
Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeshipby Brigitte Hamann, Thomas ThorntonISBN 0195140532 (0-19-514053-2)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet A. JacobsISBN 0195066707 (0-19-506670-7)
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The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay)by Fanny Burney, Joyce Hemlow, Althea DouglasISBN 0198114982 (0-19-811498-2)
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The Kingdom of Matthias/a Story of Sex and Salvation in 19Th-Century America: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19Th-Centtury Americaby Paul E. Johnson, Sean WilentzISBN 0195098358 (0-19-509835-8)
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Liberty and Freedomby David Hackett FischerISBN 0195162536 (0-19-516253-6)
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Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. Tocqueville called them "habits of the heart." From the earliest colonies, Americans have shared ideals of liberty and freedom, but with very different meanings. Like DNA these ideas have transformed and recombined in each generation.
The book arose from Fischer's discovery that the words themselves had differing origins: the Latinate "liberty" implied separation and independence. The root meaning of "freedom" (akin to "friend") connoted attachment: the rights of belonging in a community of freepeople. The tension between the two senses has been a source of conflict and creativity throughout American history.
Liberty & Freedom studies the folk history of those ideas through more than 400 visions, images, and symbols. It begins with the American Revolution, and explores the meaning of New England's Liberty Tree, Pennsylvania's Liberty Bells, Carolina's Liberty Crescent, and "Don't Tread on Me" rattlesnakes. In the new republic, the search for a common American symbol gave new meaning to Yankee Doodle, Uncle Sam, Miss Liberty, and many other icons. In the Civil War, Americans divided over liberty and freedom. Afterward, new universal visions were invented by people who had formerly been excluded from a free society--African Americans, American Indians, and immigrants. The twentieth century saw liberty and freedom tested by enemies and contested at home, yet it brought the greatest outpouring of new visions, from Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms to Martin Luther King's "dream" to Janis Joplin's "nothin' left to lose."
Illustrated in full color with a rich variety of images, Liberty and Freedom is, literally, an eye-opening work of history--stimulating, large-spirited, and ultimately, inspiring. [via]More editions of Liberty and Freedom:
Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave Southby Brenda E. StevensonISBN 0195118030 (0-19-511803-0)
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Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern Englandby Shakespeare Association of America Meeting (1993 Atlanta, Ga.), Susan Frye, Karen RobertsonISBN 0195117352 (0-19-511735-2)
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The Making of Modern South-East Asia,by D. J. M. TateISBN 0195803329 (0-19-580332-9)
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Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800by Keith ThomasISBN 0195111222 (0-19-511122-2)
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The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846by Charles Grier SellersISBN 0195089200 (0-19-508920-0)
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Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Countryby Stephanie McCurryISBN 0195117956 (0-19-511795-6)
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Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920'sby Kevin StarrISBN 019507260X (0-19-507260-X)
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The Movement and the Sixtiesby Terry H. AndersonISBN 0195104579 (0-19-510457-9)
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The Movement and the Sixties/Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Kneeby Terry H. AndersonISBN 0195074092 (0-19-507409-2)
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No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in Australia, 1788-1914by K. D. Buckley, E. L. WheelwrightISBN 0195546210 (0-19-554621-0)
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The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898by Edward M. CoffmanISBN 0195045556 (0-19-504555-6)
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Over Here: The First World War And American Societyby David M. KennedyISBN 0195173996 (0-19-517399-6)
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Styleby Michael BaxandallISBN 0198173210 (0-19-817321-0)
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This new second edition includes an appendix that lists the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, providing the reader with all the relevant, authentic sources. It also contains an updated bibliography and a new reproduction of a recently restored painting which replaces the original. [via]More editions of Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style:
Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American Historyby John DemosISBN 0195047664 (0-19-504766-4)
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Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval Englandby Compton Reeves, Albert Compton ReevesISBN 0195214234 (0-19-521423-4)
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Pornography and Representation in Greece and Romeby Amy RichlinISBN 0195067231 (0-19-506723-1)
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The Promise of the New South : Life after Reconstructionby Edward L. AyersISBN 0195085485 (0-19-508548-5)
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Proper Sphere: Woman's Place in Canadian Societyby Ramsay CookISBN 0195402723 (0-19-540272-3)
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Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valleyby Barry LevyISBN 0195049764 (0-19-504976-4)
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The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideologyby William WeberISBN 0198166079 (0-19-816607-9)
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Strange New Landby Peter H. WoodISBN 0195158237 (0-19-515823-7)
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The Strange Career of Jim Crowby Comer Vann WoodwardISBN 0195146905 (0-19-514690-5)
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.
Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations." [via]More editions of The Strange Career of Jim Crow:
Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement, 1860-1900by Mark GirouardISBN 019817330X (0-19-817330-X)
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The Tender Passionby Peter GayISBN 0195051831 (0-19-505183-1)
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To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imaginationby Robert W. JohannsenISBN 0195049810 (0-19-504981-0)
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The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War IIby William H. ChafeISBN 0195315375 (0-19-531537-5)
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The Unfinished Journey : America since World War IIby William Henry ChafeISBN 019515049X (0-19-515049-X)
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The Unfinished Journey: American [sic] since World War IIby William Henry ChafeISBN 0195066278 (0-19-506627-8)
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The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Timeby Graeme DavisonISBN 0195534964 (0-19-553496-4)
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Unpredictable Pastby Lawrence W. LevineISBN 0195082966 (0-19-508296-6)
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The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural Historyby Lawrence W. LevineISBN 0195082974 (0-19-508297-4)
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Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Communityby Vijay PrashadISBN 0195658485 (0-19-565848-5)
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War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870by Geoffrey BestISBN 0195205014 (0-19-520501-4)
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The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Veniceby Robert C. DavisISBN 0195084047 (0-19-508404-7)
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When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Storeby Elaine S. AbelsonISBN 0195071425 (0-19-507142-5)
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The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolutionby Thomas SlaughterISBN 0195051912 (0-19-505191-2)
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Women in Ancient Persia 559-331 Bcby Maria BrosiusISBN 0198152558 (0-19-815255-8)
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Women in the Classical World: Image and Textby Elaine Fantham, Helene P. Foley, Natalie Boymel KampenISBN 0195067274 (0-19-506727-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in the Classical World: Image and Text'Book summary:Bits of information about women are scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history. The vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus, riddled with gaps. The inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete, an Athenian woman who died young, but we do not know if the grave's marble stele shows Mnesarete, or simply a ready-made design chosen by her family. We read that on one occasion in the fourth century a great number of Roman wives were given a collective public trial and found guilty of poisoning their husbands, but we can only guess whether these "poisonings" were linked to a high occurrence of accidental food poisoning, or disease, or something more sinister. Apart from the legends of Cleopatra, Dido and Lucretia, and images of graceful maidens dancing on urns, the evidence about the lives of women of the classical world--visual, archaeological, and written----has remained uncollected and uninterpreted.
Now, the lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched Women in the Classical World lifts the curtain on the women of ancient Greece and Rome, from slaves and prostitutes, to Athenian housewives, to Rome's imperial family. The first book on classical women to give equal weight to written texts and artistic representations, it brings together a great wealth of materials--poetry, vase painting, legislation, medical treatises, architecture, religious and funerary art, women's ornaments, historical epics, political speeches, even ancient coins--to present women in the historical and cultural context of their time. Written by leading experts in the fields of ancient history and art history, women's studies, and Greek and Roman literature, the book's chronological arrangement allows the changing roles of women to unfold over a thousand year period, beginning in the eighth century B.C.E. The authors seek out literature that preserves women's own voices. Both the art and the literature highlight women's creativity, sexuality and coming of age, marriage and childrearing, religious and public roles, and other themes. Fascinating chapters probe revealing aspects of the classical world: the ubiquitous reports of wild behavior on the part of Spartan and Etruscan women and the mythical Amazons; the changing views of the female body presented in male-authored gynecological treatises; the "new woman" represented by the love poetry of the late Republic and Augustan Age; and the traces of upper and lower-class life in Pompeii, miraculously preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E.
Provocative, surprising, filled with timeless examples of the rich legacy of classical art, Women in the Classical World is a masterly foray into the past, and a definitive statement on the lives of women in ancient Greece and Rome. [via]More editions of Women in the Classical World: Image and Text:
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Women in the Classical World: Image and Textby Helene P. Foley, Elaine Fantham, Natalie Boymel KampenISBN 0195098625 (0-19-509862-5)
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Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plagueby Judith BennettISBN 0195045610 (0-19-504561-0)
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The World Revolution of Westernization: The Twentieth Century Global Perspectivesby Theodore H. Von LaueISBN 0195049071 (0-19-504907-1)
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