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Author:	Olwen H. Hufton	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Random House Inc	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0679450300	ISBN-13:	9780679450306
Educational Level:	--	Product Type:	--
Publication Year:	1996	Subject:	History
Language:	English	Condition:	Good

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The first of a two-volume study of the lives of women in Western Europe and America in the modern era.
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Series:	PROSPECT BEFORE HER: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN WESTERN EUROPE

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Length:	638 pages
Height:	10.0 in.
Width:	6.8 in.
Thickness:	2.2 in.
Weight:	40.0 oz.

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Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations.
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"'The Prospect Before Her' is admirable written in clear, accessible prose. Except for a faddish locution in the first chapter...it is unblemished by the kind of theoretical jargon or ideological bias that too often characterizes recent feminist and academic books." Washington Post Book World - Camille Paglia (11/17/1996) "As we approach the end of the millennium, we are well armed with 'The Prospect Before Her'. It seems it takes centuries to build a movement for change." Boston Book Review - Patsy Baudoin (04/19/1997) "Hufton is a reliable and knowledgeable writer whose great strength, as we see here, is in her command of a broad view....Hufton keeps an admirably firm grasp on realities. The grand sweep of her enquiry, which encompasses, among women, the feckless and the godly, the helpless and the cosseted, courtesans and fishwives, wet nurses, women jailkeepers, princesses at Versailles, is saved from any danger of vapid generality by the precision with which she poses central questions. In each category she goes straight for the collective 'modus vivendi,' confronts the basic practicalities. Hod did such women manage> How ere things for them exactly. With unflagging sensitivity to social nuances, Hufton explores the limits of female possibility....The heroic scale of Olwen Hufton's undertaking can be gauged from her generous source notes....She has trawled through the ocean of contemporary scholarship of women's history and absorbed and assessed huge amounts of material in several languages and ov varying intellectual depth. That Hufton has managed to shape so much documentation into a book which is logical and lucid, and with a strong central narrative, is a considerable feat of organization." New York Review of Books - Fiona MacCarthy (02/02/1997) "Olwen Hufton ['s] sparkling history of the prospects awaiting women in Western Europe between 1500 and 1800...revels in the gritty details of forgotten lives. Ranging with enormous skill and knowledge from the glitter and pomp of Versailles to the shining stoops of Amsterdam's middle-class houses (and just who was washing them?) to the fetid urban slums and dark, wretched, dirt-floored farmhouses often shared with farm animals, where most early modern Europeans were born and died, Hufton aims at nothing less than a total history of these women's experiences. To a remarkable degree, she succeeds....Hufton's genius as a historian is for selecting striking, visceral details that bring something of the smell and the feel of the early modern period out of the ground....But for her it is precisely the world's resistances, the messy, complex and half-regimented reality of history, that most profoundly matters. This is what she lavishes her attention on, what she describes with such intelligence and panache. 'The Prospect Before Her' is a tour de force, It stands as a monument to history from below, and to the first generation of women's history." New Republic - David A. Bell (01/27/1997) "Hufton is able to paint a broad picture without neglecting the significant detail. She is also remarkably even-handed, drawing from a huge range of sources which cover the lives of ordinary women as well as extraordinary ones and which deal with the mundane aspects as well as the exceptional." Literary Review - Kim Thomas (01/19/1996)

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The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500-1800 (Prospect Before Her: a History of Women in Western Europe)

Olwen Hufton

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	0679450300
Publication Date:	1996-11-26
Publisher:	Knopf

Pages:	638
Height:	2.1000 inches
Width:	6.6600 inches
Weight:	2.5300 pounds

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