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A regional and global approach to world history that highlights
society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for
its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and
sustained attention to social history, the Eleventh Edition of A
History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to
engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition
includes more help with historical thinking skills, an expanded
primary source program in print and online, and the best and latest
scholarship throughout The book can be purchased with the
breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an e-book
with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools. LaunchPad
comes with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded
learning tool that ensures students come to class prepared. Volume
2 includes Chapters 16-33
A regional and global approach to world history that highlights
society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for
its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and
sustained attention to social history, the Eleventh Edition of A
History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to
engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition
includes more help with historical thinking skills, an expanded
primary source program in print and online, and the best and latest
scholarship throughout The book can be purchased with the
breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an e-book
with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools. LaunchPad
comes with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded
learning tool that ensures students come to class prepared. Volume
1 includes Chapters 1-16
The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an
accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained
attention to social history in a brief, affordable text. The
Concise Edition features the full narrative of the comprehensive
edition, as well as a selection of features and tools to engage
today's students and save instructors time. Robust primary sources
in print and online help students with historical thinking skills.
A History of World Societies, Value Edition, is a brief, affordable
text that brings the past to life. The two-color Value Edition
includes the full narrative of the comprehensive edition and select
maps and images.
Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and
attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of
Western Society includes many tools to engage students and save
instructors time. This edition features a comprehensive primary
source program, five chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary
people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and
latest scholarship throughout. Also available to purchase with
LaunchPad, an online course space which offers a wealth of digital
content including easily assignable options for instructors and
novel ways for students to master the content. LearningCurve,
integrated with Launchpad, is an adaptive online resource that
helps students retain the material and come to class prepared. Key
features: The signature focus on social and cultural history and a
readable, accessible narrative makes the past palpable for
students. A wealth of primary sources and special features
introduce students to historical interpretation. Rich pedagogical
support keeps students focused and builds historical thinking
skills. The most current scholarship shows students the dynamic and
ongoing work of history.
Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and
attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of
Western Society includes many tools to engage today's students and
save instructors time. This edition features a comprehensive
primary source program, five chapters devoted to the lives of
ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best
and latest scholarship throughout. With over 200 written and visual
primary sources included in the document features "Evaluating the
Evidence" and "Thinking like a Historian," students connect to the
past through an array of evidence. The book can be purchased with
the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an
e-book with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools.
LaunchPad comes with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically
graded learning tool that ensures students come to class prepared.
Volume 1.2 includes chapters 11-30
A regional and global approach to world history that highlights
society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for
its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and
sustained attention to social history, the Eleventh Edition of A
History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to
engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition
includes more help with historical thinking skills, an expanded
primary source program in print and online, and the best and latest
scholarship throughout The book can be purchased with the
breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an e-book
with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools. LaunchPad
comes with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded
learning tool that ensures students come to class prepared. The
combined Volume includes all chapters.
"Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire
Conference of Women Historians
Fabricating Women" examines the social institution of the
seamstresses' guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the
Revolution. In contrast with previous scholarship on women and
gender in the early modern period, Clare Haru Crowston asserts that
the rise of the absolute state, with its centralizing and unifying
tendencies, could actually increase women's economic, social, and
legal opportunities and allow them to thrive in corporate
organizations such as the guild. Yet Crowston also reveals
paradoxical consequences of the guild's success, such as how its
growing membership and visibility ultimately fostered an
essentialized femininity that was tied to fashion and
appearances.
Situating the seamstresses' guild as both an economic and
political institution, Crowston explores in particular its
relationship with the all-male tailors' guild, which had dominated
the clothing fabrication trade in France until women challenged
this monopoly during the seventeenth century. Combining archival
evidence with visual images, technical literature, philosophical
treatises, and fashion journals, she also investigates the
techniques the seamstresses used to make and sell clothing, how the
garments reflected and shaped modern conceptions of femininity, and
guild officials' interactions with royal and municipal authorities.
Finally, by offering a revealing portrait of these women's private
lives--explaining, for instance, how many seamstresses went beyond
traditional female boundaries by choosing to remain single and
establish their own households--Crowston challenges existing ideas
about women's work and family in early modern Europe.
Although clothing lay at the heart of French economic production,
social distinction, and cultural identity, "Fabricating Women" is
the first book to investigate this immense and archetypal female
guild in depth. It will be welcomed by students and scholars of
French and European history, women's and labor history, fashion and
technology, and early modern political economy.
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A History of World Societies, Concise, Volume 1 (Paperback, 11st ed. 2017)
Roger B. Beck, Patricia B. Ebrey, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, John P McKay, Jerry Davila, …
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The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an
accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained
attention to social history in a brief, affordable text. The
Concise Edition features the full narrative of the comprehensive
edition, as well as a selection of features and tools to engage
today's students and save instructors time. Robust primary sources
in print and online help students with historical thinking skills.
A History of World Societies, Value Edition, is a brief, affordable
text that brings the past to life. The two-color Value Edition
includes the full narrative of the comprehensive edition and select
maps and images.
In Old Regime France credit was both a central part of economic
exchange and a crucial concept for explaining dynamics of influence
and power in all spheres of life. Contemporaries used the term
"credit" to describe reputation and the currency it provided in
court politics, literary production, religion, and commerce. Moving
beyond Pierre Bourdieu's theorization of capital, this book
establishes credit as a key matrix through which French men and
women perceived their world. As Clare Haru Crowston demonstrates,
credit unveils the personal character of market transactions, the
unequal yet reciprocal ties binding society, and the hidden
mechanisms of political power.
Credit economies constituted "economies of regard" in which
reputation depended on embodied performances of credibility.
Crowston explores the role of fashionable appearances and sexual
desire in leveraging credit and reconstructs women's vigorous
participation in its gray markets. The scandalous relationship
between Queen Marie Antoinette and fashion merchant Rose Bertin
epitomizes the vertical loyalties and deep social divides of the
credit regime and its increasingly urgent political stakes.
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