Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide
byGuida M. Jacksonauthor
;Guida M. Jackson is a lecturer in the English Foundations Department at the University of Houston, Houston, TX and managing editor ofTouchstone Literary Journal.
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- 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-winningWomen 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.
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"Recommended for high schools." -Gale.com"Recommended for public libraries." -Library Journal"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
- Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide
Author(s): Jackson, Guida;Contributors: Jackson, Guida;Abstract: 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-winningWomen 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.SortTitle: women rulers throughout the ages: an illustrated guideAuthor Info:Guida M. Jacksonauthor;Guida M. Jackson is a lecturer in the English Foundations Department at the University of Houston, Houston, TX and managing editor ofTouchstone Literary Journal.eISBN-13: 9781576074626Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781576074626.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781576070918Entry Code: WOWH2EImprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 520Publication Date: 19990923Subtitle: An Illustrated GuideTable of Contents pages: 1 2 3
- Cover Cover11
- Women Rulers throughout the Ages i2
- Title iii4
- Copyright iv5
- Dedication v6
- Contents vii8
- Geographical Chronology of Entries xv16
- Preface xxxi32
- Introduction xxxv36
- Women Rulers throughout the Ages xlvii48
- Absh Khatun 150
- Ada 150
- Adame, Mama 251
- Addagoppe of Harran 352
- Adela 453
- Adelaide 554
- Adelaide of Salona 655
- Adele 756
- Aelfgifu of Northumbria 756
- Aelfwyn 857
- Aethelflaed 857
- Afua Koba 958
- Agnes de Dampierre 1059
- Agnes de Nevers 1059
- Agnes of Dunbar 1160
- Agnes of Poitou 1160
- Ahhotpe I 1261
- Ahmose-Nofretari 1261
- Aissa Koli 1362
- Alaghai-bäki 1463
- Alam al-Malika 1564
- Alexandra 1564
- Alexandra 1665
- Alice 1766
- Aline Sitoe 1867
- Alix of Anjou 1968
- Alix of Vergy 1968
- Amalswinthe 2069
- Amanishakhete 2069
- Amina 2170
- Ankhesenamun 2271
- Ankhnesneferibre 2473
- Ankyeaa Nyame 2473
- Anna Anachoutlou 2473
- Anna Dalassena 2574
- Anna Leopoldovna 2574
- Anna of Savoy 2675
- Anna Palaeologina 2776
- Anna Palaeologina-Cantacuzena 2776
- Anne 2877
- Anne 2877
- Anne 3079
- Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans 3180
- Anne of Austria 3180
- Anne of England 3281
- Anne of France 3382
- Anula 3483
- Apumatec 3483
- Aquino, María Corazon 3483
- Arsinde 3685
- Arsinoë II 3786
- Artemisia I 3887
- Artemisia II 3887
- ‘Arwa Bint Ahmad al-Sulayhiyya 3988
- Asa 4089
- Asma Bint Shihab al-Sulayhiyya 4190
- Athaliah 4190
- Awura Pokou 4291
- Āzarmēdukht 4392
- Bailor-Caulker, Honoraria 4594
- Balkis 4695
- Balthild 4897
- Bandaranaike, Sirimavo Ratevatte Dias 4897
- Barbara, Agatha 4998
- Barrow, Ruth Nita 5099
- Beatrice 51100
- Beatrice 52101
- Beatrice 52101
- Beatrice, Countess 52101
- Béatrix de Bourgogne 53102
- Béatrix Wilhelmina Armgard 53102
- Bendjou, Empress 54103
- Berenice 55104
- Berenice III 56105
- Berenice IV 57106
- Bergmann-Pohl, Sabine 57106
- Bhutto, B́enazir 58107
- Bianca 61110
- Bianca Maria 61110
- Bjerregaard, Ritt, 62111
- Blanca, Doña 63112
- Blanche of Castile 64113
- Bona of Savoy 64113
- Bōran̄ 65114
- Boraqchin, Khatum 65114
- Boudicca 66115
- Brigantia 66115
- Brundtland, Gro Harlem 67116
- Brunhilde 68117
- Busignani, Patricia 70119
- Campbell, Kim 71120
- Candace 72121
- Cartimandua 73122
- Catalinda d’ Albret 73122
- Caterina Sforza 74123
- Catherine 75124
- Catherine I 76125
- Catherine II the Great 77126
- Catherine Cornaro 79128
- Catherine de Médicis 80129
- Catherine of Aragon 82131
- Catherine of Braganza 83132
- Catherine of Valois 83132
- Ceccoli, Edda 84133
- Chamorro,Violeta Barrios de 84133
- Charles, Mary Eugenia 86135
- Charlotte 88137
- Charlotte 88137
- Cheng-Chun 89138
- Chindók Yówang 90139
- Chinsóng Yówang 91140
- Christina 92141
- Christine of France 93142
- Çiller,Tansu 94143
- Cixi 95144
- Claude 97146
- Claudine 97146
- Cleopatra I 97146
- Cleopatra II 98147
- Cleopatra III 99148
- Cleopatra VI Tryphaena 99148
- Cleopatra VII 99148
- Cleopatra of Cyrene 102151
- Cleopatra Thea 103152
- Constance 103152
- Constance 105154
- Constance 106155
- Constance 107156
- Cresson, Edith 108157
- da Lourdes-Pintasilgo, María 111160
- Daura, Queen of 112161
- Dawlat Khatun 113162
- Deborah 113162
- Deidameia 115164
- Diane of Poitiers 115164
- Didda 116165
- Dido 116165
- Dola 118167
- Domitien, Élisabeth 118167
- Drahomira 119168
- Dreifuss, Ruth 120169
- Durgavati 120169
- Dzeliwe Shongwe 121170
- Ebuskun 123172
- Eji 123172
- Eleanor 124173
- Eleanor of Aquitaine 125174
- Eleanor of Arborea 127176
- Elisa Bonaparte 127176
- Elizabeth 129178
- Elizabeth 130179
- Elizabeth I 131180
- Elizabeth I 132181
- Elizabeth II 134183
- Elizabeth of Görlitz 135184
- Elizabeth of Poland 136185
- Emma 137186
- Erato 138187
- Ermengarde 138187
- Ermengarde 139188
- Ermensinde 139188
- Eschiva of Ibelin, Lady 140189
- Eudocia Macrembolitissa 140189
- Eudoxia 142191
- Eugénie-Marie 143192
- Euphrosine 144193
- Euphrosyne 145194
- Fatima 147196
- Fatima 147196
- Finnbogadóttir,Vigdis 148197
- Fredegund 150199
- Gandhi, Indira 153202
- Gemmei-tennō 155204
- Genshō-tennō 156205
- Gordon, Minita 156205
- Go-Sakuramachi-tennō 157206
- Grey, Lady Jane 157206
- Gulama, Madame 158207
- Gwamile Mdluli 159208
- Gyda 160209
- Hatshepsut 161210
- Hazrat Mahal, Begum 163212
- Hedwig, Saint 164213
- Helena Lecapena 165214
- Henriette de Cleves 166215
- Hetepheres I 167216
- Himnechildis 168217
- Hind al-Hīrah 168217
- Hinematioro 168217
- Hodierna of Jerusalem 169218