The Sovereign Ladies of Europe
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Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : Countess Mary von Bothmer |
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Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Mary Bothmer |
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Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Marie Bothmer (Gräfin von) |
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Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Empresses |
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Author | : Marie Bothmer |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
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ISBN | : 9781498078290 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition.
Author | : Marie Bothmer (Gräfin von) |
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Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Queens |
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Author | : Marie Von Bothmer |
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Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 1421270935 |
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Hutchinson & Co. in London, 1899.
Author | : Sophia Elizabeth Higgins |
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Maureen Waller |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466858028 |
Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight on the British monarchy---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names. In the last millennium there have been only six English female sovereigns: Mary I and Elizabeth I, Mary II and Anne, Victoria and Elizabeth II. With the exception of Mary I, they are among England's most successful monarchs. Without Mary II and Anne, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 might not have taken place. Elizabeth I and Victoria each gave their name to an age, presiding over long periods when Britain made significant progress in the growth of empire, prestige, and power. All of them have far-reaching legacies. Each faced personal sacrifices and emotional dilemmas in her pursuit of political power. How to overcome the problem of being a female ruler when the sex was considered inferior? Does a queen take a husband and, if so, how does she reconcile the reversal of the natural order, according to which the man should be the master? A queen's first royal duty is to provide an heir to the throne, but at what cost? In this richly compelling narrative of royalty, Maureen Waller delves into the intimate lives of England's queens regnant in delicious detail, assessing their achievements from a female perspective.
Author | : William Monter |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030017327X |
In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs—the famous (Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great) as well as the obscure (Charlotte of Cyprus, Isabel Clara Eugenia of the Netherlands)—describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, and (more often than men) abandoned it. Monter argues that Europe's female kings, who ruled by divine right, experienced no significant political opposition despite their gender.