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"Perkins' richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender
equity has never come easily, but instead if borne from the
exertions of those who precede us."-Nathalia Holt, New York Times
bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls If Yale was going to
keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the
nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer
do without. In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns,
young women across the country sent in applications to Yale
University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated
to graduating "one thousand male leaders" each year had finally
decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The
landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in
education. Or was it? The experience the first undergraduate women
found when they stepped onto Yale's imposing campus was not the
same one their male peers enjoyed. Isolated from one another,
singled out as oddities and sexual objects, and barred from many of
the privileges an elite education was supposed to offer, many of
the first girls found themselves immersed in an overwhelmingly male
culture they were unprepared to face. Yale Needs Women is the story
of how these young women fought against the backward-leaning
traditions of a centuries-old institution and created the
opportunities that would carry them into the future. Anne Gardiner
Perkins's unflinching account of a group of young women striving
for change is an inspiring story of strength, resilience, and
courage that continues to resonate today. "Yes, Yale needed women,
but it didn't really want them... Anne Gardiner Perkins tells how
these young women met the challenge with courage and tenacity and
forever changed Yale and its chauvinistic motto of graduating 1,000
male leaders every year."-Lynn Povich, author of The Good Girls
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Iranian history has long been a source of fascination for European
and American observers. The country's ancient past preoccupied
nineteenth-century historians and archaeologists as they attempted
to construct a unified understanding of the ancient world. Iran's
medieval history has likewise preoccupied scholars who have long
recognized the Iranian plateau as a cultural crossroad of the
world's great civilizations. In more recent times, Iran has
continued to demand the attention of observers when, for example,
the revolution of 1978-79 dramatically burst onto the world stage,
or more recently, when the Iranian democracy movement has come to
once again challenge the status quo of the clerical regime. Iran's
dominance in the Middle East has brought it into conflict with the
United States and so it is the subject of almost daily coverage
from reporters. Sympathetic observers of Iran-students, scholars,
policy makers, journalists, and the educated public-tend to be
perplexed and confused by this tangled web of historical
development. Iran, as it appears to most observers, is a
foreboding, menacing, and far away land with a history that is
simply too difficult to fathom.
The Handbook is a guide to Iran's complex history. The book
emphasizes the large-scale continuities of Iranian history while
also describing the important patterns of transformation that have
characterized Iran's past. Each of the chapters focuses on a
specific epoch of Iranian history and surveys the general
political, social, cultural, and economic issues of that era. The
ancient period begins with chapters considering the anthropological
evidence of the prehistoric era, through to the early settled
civilizations of the Iranian plateau, and continuing to the rise of
the ancient Persian empires. The medieval section first considers
the Arab-Muslim conquest of the seventh century, and then moves on
to discuss the growing Turkish influence filtering in from Central
Asia beginning in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The last third
of the book covers Iran in the modern era by considering the rise
of the Safavid state and its accompanying policy of centralization
and the introduction of Shi'ism, followed by essays on the problems
of reform and modernization in the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, and
finally with a chapter on the revolution of 1978-79 and its
aftermath.
The book is a collaborative exercise among scholars specializing in
a variety of sub-fields, and across a number of disciplines,
including history, art history, classics, literature, politics, and
linguistics. Here, readers can find a reliable and accessible
narrative that can serve as an introduction to the field of Iranian
studies. While the number of monographs published within
specialized subfields of Iranian history continues to proliferate,
there have been, to date, no books that attempt to produce a
comprehensive single-volume history of Iranian civilization.
From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now.
When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked, and even gold was sold. In a matter of weeks, the world's economy was brought to an abrupt halt by governments trying to contain a spiralling public health catastrophe.
Flights were grounded; supply chains broken; industries from tourism to oil to hospitality collapsed overnight, leaving hundreds of millions of people unemployed. Central banks responded with unprecedented interventions, just to keep their economies on life-support. For the first time since the second world war, the entire global economic system contracted. This book tells the story of that shutdown. We do not yet know how this story ends, or what new world we will find on the other side.
In this fast-paced, compelling and at times shocking analysis, Adam Tooze surveys the wreckage, and looks at where we might be headed next.
Killing Crazy Horse is the latest installment of the
multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through
the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans
and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the
beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the
destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes
in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison
would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans
and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades.
Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through
the fraught history of our country's founding on already occupied
lands, from General Andrew Jackson's brutal battles with the Creek
Nation to President James Monroe's epic "sea to shining sea"
policy, to President Martin Van Buren's cruel enforcement of a
"treaty" that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands
along what would be called the Trail of Tears. O'Reilly and Dugard
take readers behind the legends to reveal never-before-told
historical moments in the fascinating creation story of America.
This fast-paced, wild ride through the American frontier will shock
readers and impart unexpected lessons that reverberate to this day.
My recollection of one of the proudest days of my life. At the
Meardy Farm, I stood next to my mother and my dad Arthur while she
rang France to speak to the Duke of Windsor. The change in my
mothers voice from this miserable woman in her sixties, who would
moan and groan regardless about life, into a young girl blushing at
the sound of his voice. "Hello David, its Rose," she sounded so
gentle. I looked at Arthur and he did not look happy with mum,
hearing her conversation, watching her acting in this way. I stood
waiting nervously, what would I say to this man? A Prince, a King,
and now the Duke of Windsor, but always my father. Then mum passed
me the telephone, I put it against my ear and stammered. "Hello,
it's Roy, Roy Albert." The telephone went silent for a few moments,
then a voice on the end of the line replied, "Hello Roy Albert,
this is Edward ..."
'Riot!' illuminates a darker moment in Bristol's history. Set
against a backdrop of massive social and political change 'Riot!'
vividly recreates the dreadful sequence of events that led to the
Bristol Bridge Massacre.Compellingly written and meticulously
researched 'Riot!' chronicles the events in Bristol during the
pivotal year of 1793. The book was originally published in 1997.
The new edition includes a foreword by Dr Steve Poole Associate
Professor of Social and Cultural History, University of the West of
England, Bristol. Written in a lively and accessible style 'Riot!'
is essential reading for anyone interested in local history or
politics.
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