Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide

by Guida M. Jackson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781576070918
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/23/1999
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.12(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Guida M. Jackson is a lecturer in the English Foundations Department at the University of Houston, Houston, TX and managing editor of Touchstone Literary Jourbanal.

Editorial Reviews

Recommended for high schools.” —Gale.com

“Recommended for public libraries.” —Library Jourbanal

“This work is recommended for high school libraries.” —American Reference Books Annual

“An excellent survey which provides a starting point for research papers and an understanding of the role of women in world politics.” —The Bookwatch

From the Publisher

Written by two-time encyclopedia creator Jackson (English, Univ. of Houston), this book is a handy (though, at 452 pages, heavy) biographical dictionary of women leaders. Most of the entries are quite short, but they manage to give not just a thumbnail sketch but also historical context and major contributions. All the women included here were official rulers: they range from Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, to Mary McAleese, the current president of Ireland, with a string of queens, sultanas, empresses, countesses, dutchesses, prime ministers, and presidents in between; there are no second-level leaders, no spouses of leaders, and no merely famous women listed here. Bibliographical entries appear at the end of individual biographies and at the back of the text. The illustrations, however, are not as generous as the subtitle implies. Recommended for public libraries.--Bonnie Collier, Yale Law Lib. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

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 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<'o>n. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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