Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India - Softcover

Macmillan, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812976398 ISBN 13: 9780812976397

Verlag: RANDOM HOUSE, 2007

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Book by MacMillan Margaret

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Reseña del editor:

A vivid social history details the lives of British women "exiled" to India by virtue of their husbands' and fathers' assignments there during the era of British colonial rule, interweaving personal correspondence, interviews, and memoirs to capture a unique society immersed in a culture very different from their own. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

Margaret MacMillan received her PhD from Oxford University and is now a professor of international history at Oxford, where she is also the warden of St. Antony’s College. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; a senior fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto; and an honorary fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto, and of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University. Her previous books include Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History; Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World; Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India; and Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

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• Verlag: RANDOM HOUSE
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0812976398
• ISBN 13: 9780812976397
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 334