Women and the Vote: A World History

by Jad Adams

Book Overview

Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so.

This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of women and the vote, it takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present day, revealing startling new connections across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198706847
• ISBN13: 9780198706847
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"