Maxine Berg
Autor de The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain
Sobre El Autor
Maxine Berg is Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Luxury Eighteenth Century 1 copia
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The prose in A Woman in History is at times a little lumpy and repetitive and could have benefited from a stronger editorial hand, and I could have done with less continual emphasis on Power's beauty, grace and dress sense. There's a difference between the biographer analysing how a woman's physical attractiveness might have helped or hindered her success in the academia of the 1920s and 30s, and the biographer seeming to regard those attributes as notable virtues in their own right. Still, I think this is an important biography and one which should be read by all postgrads who seek to understand the history of their own field.… (más)