Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history /

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Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 381 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	The California world history library ; 7 California world history library ; 7.
Subject:	Courtesans -- History. Courts and courtiers -- History. Ladies-in-waiting -- History. Favorites, Royal -- History. Harems -- History. Courtesans. Courts and courtiers. Favorites, Royal. Harems. Ladies-in-waiting. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11201636

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Other authors / contributors:	Walthall, Anne, editor.
ISBN:	0520941519 9780520941519 1281752657 9781281752659 9780520254435 0520254430 9780520254442 0520254449 9786611752651 661175265X 1435684753 9781435684751
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-358) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Servants of the dynasty. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008
Standard no.:	10.1525/9780520941519

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