A History of the World with the Women Put Back In

Kerstin Lücker, Ute Daenschel, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Jessica West

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9780750989091
• eBook ISBN:
  9780750992930
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Women in History
• Index: History

'Who says that daughters cannot be heroic?' Once upon a time, history was written by men, for men and about men. Women were deemed less important, their letters destroyed, their stories ignored. Not any more. This is the story of women who went to war, women who stopped war and women who stayed at home. The rulers. The fighters. The activists. The writers. This is the story of Wu Zetian, who as 'Chinese Emperor' helped to spread Buddhism in China. This is the story of Genghis Khan's powerful daughters, who ruled his empire for him. This is the story of Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest feminist writers. This is the story of Victoria Woodhull, who ran for president before she could even vote for one. This is the story of the world – with the women put back in.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• The Women on the Cover
• In the Beginning
• Prehistory
• Sumerians and Babylonians
• The Kingdom on the Nile
• History Begins in the Indus Valley
• The Shang and the Zhou
• One God
• The Buddha Discovers the Path to Liberation
• The Birth of Europe and Ancient Greece
• The First Conquerors of the World
• The Roman Empire
• The Middle Kingdom
• The Birth of Christianity
• The Imperium Romanum Becomes Christendom
• Every End is a New Beginning
• The Byzantine Empire
• Splendour and Darkness
• China’s Middle Ages
• Muhammad Hears the Voice of God
• Great Things Come from Africa
• The Roman Empire Becomes Two
• A New State in Eastern Europe
• The Roman Empire Splits … Again
• The Caliphate of Cairo
• The Invention of the Novel
• From Castles to Towns
• The First Crusade
• In the Medieval Courts
• Market Towns Flourish and Christendom Flounders
• The Mongols
• Marguerite Porete and Joan of Arc
• The End of the Middle Ages, the Start of the Modern Era
• The End of the Byzantine Empire
• The Renaissance
• The Discovery of America
• The Middle Kingdom Shuts Itself Off
• Loss of Power and Schism in the Church
• Britain Becomes a Trading Power
• Everything is on the Move
• The Ottoman Empire
• Devastating Wars and the Rise of Science
• The Glorious Revolution
• Absolutism and Enlightenment
• The Greats: Frederick and Catherine
• The Founding of the United States of America
• The Last Continent is Discovered
• Olympe de Gouges Declares the Rights of the Woman and Citizen
• Revolution and Restoration
• The Triumph of the Machine
• Darwin and Marx Explain the World
• Progress and Regression
• The Ming and the Qing
• The Fight for Civil Rights
• Imperialism: Europeans on the Rampage
• Faster!
• Resistance
• The March of Imperialism: the Europeans Conquer Africa
• Britain Against Germany
• The Suffragettes
• Women are not United
• Warfare Gets Harsher
• Soldiers March, Women Build Bombs
• The British Carve up the Middle East
• One World, Two Ideas
• The World Falls into an Abyss
• The Cold War
• Catching up with the Present
• Bibliography
• About the Authors, Translators and Illustrator