Search Results

Men weren't the only explorers between the early 1500s and 1800s. This book recounts the adventures of more than 200 of history's forgotten female ... More

See all Softcovers | Hardcovers | List of all editions

Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their ... More

See all Softcovers | Hardcovers | List of all editions

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the ... More

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

This volume fills a gap in traditional women's history books by offering fascinating details of the lives of early American women and showing how ... More

See all Hardcovers | List of all editions

Danielle van den Heuvel examines the role women played in trade in the northern Netherlands. She looks at three forms of commercial enterprise in ... More

See all Hardcovers | List of all editions

This volume, which spans the long period from the sixteenth century through the Civil War era, is remarkable for the religious, racial, ethnic, and ... More

See all Softcovers | Hardcovers | List of all editions

Cultural Writing. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle ... More

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

A reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought.

See all Hardcovers | List of all editions

See all Hardcovers | List of all editions

Study of three centuries of radical ideas and activity in English political and social history.

See all Softcovers | Hardcovers | List of all editions

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ... More

See all Softcovers | Hardcovers | List of all editions

This book represents an attempt on the part of the author to satisfy a very real need of a textbook which will reach far enough back to afford secure ... More

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

Why is it that some women have created successful careers in science, when historically there have been so many barriers that exclude women from ... More

See all Softcovers | Hardcovers | List of all editions

Alluring, wealthy, and married to the conqueror of Europe, Josephine appeared in 1804 as the most favored woman in France; but her actual life was ... More

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

Now in paperback, Cordingly offers a rip-roaring voyage of a book through some of the least known and most fascinating annals of maritime history: a ... More

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

Women's history from Europe to Japan, from the fifth century to the nineteenth.

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

Originally penned in 1912, this historical reprint showcases individual portraits of the fiercely courageous women who endured tremendous hardship as ... More

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

A young adult biography of British astronomer Caroline Herschel

See all List of all editions

In her superb new biography, Brady draws on a vast array of primary sources to reconstruct the daily texture of the Washingtons' marriage as well as ... More

See all Softcovers | Hardcovers | List of all editions

Bestselling author du Plessix Gray chronicles the incandescent life of the most celebrated--and one of the most controversial--woman of letters of ... More

See all Hardcovers | List of all editions

I loved this book! Carolyn See, Washington Post

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter ... More

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

This present volume, a collection of some of the most important writings by and about Catherine McAuley, includes letters, memoirs, and annals by ... More

See all Softcovers | List of all editions

A pioneering, diverse collection that provides insight into the powerful motive of self-expression that inspired women autobiographers around the ... More

See all Softcovers | List of all editions