Women Rulers Throughout the AgesWomen Rulers Throughout the Ages
Women Rulers throughout the Ages is an engaging and informative biographical compendium of women rulers around the world.
Some were bloodthirsty. Some were enlightened. One was not amused. All were women who held supreme power: queens, empresses, prime ministers, presidents, regents, constitutional monarchs, and other women rulers. Women Rulers Throughout the Ages offers highly readable biographies covering each ruler's victories and defeats, foibles and triumphs, life and times.
This title is based on the author's award-winning Women Who Ruled. Many entries have been substantially revised, expanded, and updated, and more than 200 new entries have been added, covering individuals who came to power in the past decade, along with recently unearthed information about little-known rulers in Africa, the Middle East, and Central America.
- Biographies of more than 550 rulers of countries, empires, and civilizations, including less prominently researched women rulers from areas such as Africa, the Middle East, and Central America
Alphabetically from Absh Khatun, 13th century Queen of Persia, to Dr. Sibongile Zungu, chief in 1993 of the South African Madlebe Tribe, independent scholar Jackson updates her Women Who Ruled by adding those who have served in the last decade. The volume includes entries running from a paragraph to three pages; a useful geographical chronology by century; and b&w representations of rulers from Carthage's legendary founder Dido to Jenny Shipley, New Zealand's Prime Minister since 1997. Includes some powers behind the throne like Diane de Poitiers but not Marie Antoinette or Eva Per=n. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Profiles women rulers from throughout history, including Absh Khatun, thirteenth-century Queen of Persia; Dr. Sibongile Zungu, chief in 1993 of the South African Madlebe Tribe; and Jenny Shipley, New Zealand's Prime Minister since 1997.
Women Rulers throughout the Ages is an engaging and informative biographical compendium of women rulers around the world.
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- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1999
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