eBook - ePub

The Color of Time

Name: The Color of Time
ISBN: 9781639362868

Women In History: 1850-1960

Dan Jones,

432 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Color of Time

Women In History: 1850-1960

Dan Jones,

About this book

Bestselling historian Dan Jones and the brilliant artist Marina Amaral have combined their talents to create a illuminating visual history of women around the world. Dan Jones and Marina Amaral, the acclaimed team behind The Color of Time, combine their talents again to explorethe many roles—domestic, social, cultural and professional—played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold.Using Marina Amaral's colorized images and Dan Jones's words, this survey features women both celebrated and ordinary, whether in the home or the science lab, protesting on the streets or performing on stage, fighting in the trenches or exploring the wild. This vivid and unique history brings to life and fullcolorthe female experience in a centuryofextraordinary change.Each chapter will be introduced by a woman who works in that field today and the book includes photographsofQueen Victoria, Edith Cavell, Josephine Baker, Mildred Burke, Eva Peron, Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Clara Schumann, Martha Gellhorn, Simone de Beauvoir, Agatha Christie, Frida Kahlo, Emmeline Pankhurst, 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.In combination of vividpictures and stirring prose, The Color of Time: Women in History, brings history to life from the vantage point of women who lived it.

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