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A woman in history : Eileen Power, 1889-1940 / Maxine Berg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berg, Maxine, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power, Eileen, 1889-1940.
- Power, Eileen.
- London School of Economics and Political Science--Faculty--Biography.
- London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Women historians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women historians.
- Great Britain.
- Medievalists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Medievalists.
- Great Britain--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Middle Ages--Historiography.
- Middle Ages.
- Europe--Historiography.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 292 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This book tells the fascinating story of the life and work of Eileen Power, a major British historian who once ranked in fame alongside Tawney, Trevelyan and Toynbee. Using letters, diaries and reminiscences, Maxine Berg recreates the life of this charismatic personality, describing Power's remarkable intellectual and scholarly achievements at a time when she was acting very much outside the conventional female role.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521402786
- 0521568528
- OCLC:
- 32892275
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