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Women Who Ruled: A Biographical Encyclopedia
Women Who Ruled A Biographical Encyclopedia Author:Guida M. Jackson The book provides the most extensive source to date covering women rulers, de facto rulers, and constitutional monarchs. About 350 biographical sketches, from Egypt's Meryet-Net (31st century B.C.) to Nicaragua's new president, Violeta Chamorro, are included. Scope, criteria for selection, and special problems are discussed in the prefac... more »e; a useful overview by continent comprises the introduction; and a chronology lists each ruler by century.
Narratives, arranged alphabetically by name, range from a paragraph to one page, depending on the ruler's importance and availability of historical information. Sources are extensively and meticulously documented in the notes and bibliography. A well-researched and readable text, this is recommended for academic, public, and school library reference collections.« less