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A fascinating history of female rulers across time and across the world Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred to a woman, with female inheritance vanishingly rare and frequently disputed. In spite of this, women have secured crowns--or fought for them--over several millennia. This scintillating book tell the story of the female kings: women who risked everything, sometimes unwillingly, to find a place in a man's world. Women Who Ruled the World covers an exhilarating expanse of time and space: from the lush oases of Ancient Egypt to the cherry blossomed islands of Japan, from the nineteenth-century Queens of Madagascar who defied French attempts to colonize them to Tamar the Great, who presided over a golden age in Georgia. From the familiar--Boudicca, Cleopatra, Catherine to Great--to the unfamiliar--Urracca of Castile and Leon, Kushite queen Shanakdakhete, Lili'uokalani of Hawaii. This groundbreaking book casts a global eye over five millennia of queenship, a truly remarkable feat of historical skill and breadth of knowledge.

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Elizabeth Norton is a historian and archaeologist. She is the author of several books, including The Lives of Tudor Women and England's Queens: The Biography, the first comprehensive study of English queenship from the Roman period to the present. She appears regularly on television documentaries and has experience as a historical consultant for both film and TV. She has a degree in archaeology and anthropology from the University of Cambridge, another in European archaeology from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in early modern British history from King's College London. She has taught history at King's College London, and lectured and tutored in archaeology at Oxford University. Elizabeth Norton is a historian and archaeologist. She is the author of several books, including The Lives of Tudor Women and England's Queens: The Biography, the first comprehensive study of English queenship from the Roman period to the present. She appears regularly on television documentaries and has experience as a historical consultant for both film and TV. She has a degree in archaeology and anthropology from the University of Cambridge, another in European archaeology from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in early modern British history from King's College London. She has taught history at King's College London, and lectured and tutored in archaeology at Oxford University.

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