Adams, Jad.

W203

Women and the vote a world history / Jad Adams.

x, 516 p. ill. 24 cm

Democracy before democracy -- The rights of man -- Early British radicals -- The rise of the middle-class campaigner -- New-found rights in new-found lands -- "In with our women" in the Western US -- Out of the doll's house in Scandinavia -- Lobbyists to militants in Britain -- Victory and disenfranchisement in the US -- Who won votes from the war? -- The Pope and the vote : Catholic Europe -- Latin American mothers of the nation -- The enfranchisement of the East -- Africa and the Cold War -- The veiled vote.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--Suffrage--History.
Women's rights--History.