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A Woman in History - Eileen Power, 1889-1940 (Hardcover, New)
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A Woman in History - Eileen Power, 1889-1940 (Hardcover, New)
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Eileen Power was the best-known medieval historian of the interwar
years, and wrote one of the classic medieval histories, Medieval
people. An active participant in the campaign for women's suffrage,
she became one of the first writers and teachers of women's
history. She made her career as lecturer and then as professor at
the London School of Economics and, together with R. H. Tawney,
turned a frontier subject, economic and social history, into a
prominent part of the historical disciplines. She defined her
subject as comparative and international in her passionate
engagement with the forces of nationalism and militarism. Her major
works on trade, merchants and comparative economic history were
conveyed in writing that was individual and human, rich in
narrative and ranging widely over time and place. In her evangelism
for the subject on the lecture platform, on the radio, through the
press and in the school book, she made her subject glamorous, and
her history became compelling reading and listening for a whole
generation. Yet when she died prematurely at the age of fifty-one,
her legacy to history was lost, and now we have largely forgotten
her and the passions that drove her to write history. By narrating
the life story of this woman who combined scholarship with
personality to make an academic career against the odds, Maxine
Berg refocuses our attention on Eileen Power as one of the first
and most remarkable 'women in history'.
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