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Title: Warrior Queens by ANTONIA FRASER ISBN: 0-679-72816-3 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 14 April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Decent historical analysis
Comment: This is not a pop-history book. I picked this book up expecting it to be a very easy read but was surprised when I found myself reading through a book that would not have been out of place in any of my college history courses. Fraser has painted a very fascinating picture of various warrior queens around the world. Though at times, the narrative drags through her meticulous statement of facts, that is to be expected. I was very disappointed at her omission of the Egyptian pharaoh-queen Hatshepsut, however. Nevertheless, the women that she picks to include in her analysis make up a very good overview of the various warrior queens throughout the world and through time. It was an extremely interesting read and I would recommend it for anyone who has an interest in historical women as well as the the patience to read a (mostly) scholarly work.
Rating: 1
Summary: An attempted read
Comment: Perhaps I expected more from this book than was present, but I could hardly get through the first few chapters and I am an avid historic biography reader. I found her methods tiresome and boring, having the preference to recite found facts rather than compile and share, she reads like a card catalog. I now know exactly what to read if I do wish to learn something of these women she eludes to, but after having put this book down, I feel I am less wise to the subjects then when I started. I need a chronological telling of a person and their movement, not a forty-three page explanation of exactly who has written such things in the past. Perhaps, I stopped reading three or four chapters before it got good, but I doubt it. I was very disappointed.
Rating: 4
Summary: If Women Ran The World...
Comment: Let this scene from the revolt of Boudicca fire your imagination: "the captured Roman women had their breasts sliced off and sewn to their faces so it would appear they were eating them; then they were skewered alive and strung up longways." No surprise that the career of Margaret Thatcher inspired this work.
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Title: Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser ISBN: 038531129X Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Gladiatrix: The True Story of History's Unknown Woman Warrior by Amy Zoll ISBN: 0425186105 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Marie Antoinette : The Journey by Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0385489498 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines by Jeannine Ph.D. Davis-Kimball, Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Mona Behan ISBN: 0446679836 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser ISBN: 067973001X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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