Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and...

A concise yet comprehensive account of the roles and influences of gender over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughout. Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition explores the construction and evolution of gender in many of the world’s cultures from the Paleolithic era to the COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century. Broad in geographic and topical scope, this...

What is Early Modern History? offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and serves as an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organise the past and how the discipline of history has evolved. Merry Wiesner-Hanks showcases the new research and innovative methods that have altered our understanding of this...