| Edition |
1st Vintage Books ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 383 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-362) and index. |
| Contents |
A singular exception -- Antique glories -- The queen of war -- Iceni: this powerful tribe -- Ruin by a woman -- The red layer -- Eighty thousand dead -- O Zenobia! -- Matilda, daughter of Peter -- England's domina -- Lion of the Caucasus -- Isabella with her prayers -- Elizabethan triumphans -- Jinga at the gates -- Queen versus mother -- The valiant Rani -- Iron ladies -- Unbecoming in a woman? |
| Summary |
The author looks at women who have led armies and empires. Boadicea, the Celtic chieftain who led a bloody uprising against Roman rule in the first century A.D. Cleopatra, who relied less on sexual guile than on political acumen. The grimly devout Isabella of Spain. The majestic and murderous Jinga Mbandi, who became the bane of Portuguese colonists in the seventeenth century Angola. Also are the moder "iron ladies": Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, and Golda Meir. |
| Subject |
Women -- Biography.
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Queens -- Biography.
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Women -- Political activity.
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Women soldiers.
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Queens. (OCoLC)fst01085637
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women -- Political activity.
(OCoLC)fst01734136
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Women soldiers. (OCoLC)fst01178559
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| ISBN |
0679728163 |
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9780679728160 |
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