A Woman's World 1850-1960

The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series.A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic, social, cultural and professional - played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina Amaral's colourized images and Dan Jones's words, this survey features women both celebrated and ordinary, whether in the science lab or protesting on the streets, performing on stage or fighting in the trenches, running for election or exploring the wild. This vivid and unique history brings to life and full colour the female experience in a century of extraordinary change.Photographs include: Queen Victoria, Edith Cavell, Josephine Baker, Eva Peron, Virginia Woolf, Clara Schumann, Martha Gellhorn, Rosa Parks, Agatha Christie, Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightingale, Hattie McDaniel and Gertrude Bell; as well as revolutionaries from China to Cuba, Geishas in Japan, protestors on the Salt March, teachers and pilots, nurses and soldiers.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Dan Jones is a historian, broadcaster and award-winning journalist. His books, including The Templars, Crusaders and, with Marina Amaral, The Colour of Time and The World Aflame, have sold more than one million copies worldwide.

Marina Amaral is a talented digital colourist. Her work has featured on the BBC and in the Evening Standard, Washington Post and Le Figaro and she has collaborated with the History Channel, PBS, English Heritage and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. In 2021, Marina was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Marina Amaral, Dan Jones, Dan Amaral Jones
• Verlag: Head of Zeus
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781800240247
• ISBN: 978-1-80024-024-7
• Seiten: 446
• Abmessung: 199 mm x 255 mm x 39 mm
• Serie: Apollo
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Photographs: collections, Social and cultural history, Non Fiction