Women Warriors Hidden In History
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Women Warriors
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Author : Sarah Eason
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Women Warriors written by Sarah Eason and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Women and war categories.
"There were many real-life female fighters who wowed the ancient and modern worlds with their bravery and skills. This exciting book dives into the history of women who bravely fought-some to the death! Read about Cynane, the half-sister of Alexander the Great, who became the super-slayer of the ancient Greeks, and the rebel fighters Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, who repelled a stronger army and ruled Vietnam for three years "--
Warrior Women
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Author : Jeannine Davis-Kimball
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2003-02-01
Warrior Women written by Jeannine Davis-Kimball and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-01 with Social Science categories.
Davis-Kimball weaves science, mythology and mystical cultures into a bold new historical tapestry of female warriors, heroines and leaders who have been left out of the history books-- until now.
Women Warriors
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Author : Pamela D. Toler
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2019-02-26
Women Warriors written by Pamela D. Toler and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-26 with History categories.
Who says women don’t go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor. The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly—Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns out, have always gone to war. In this fascinating and lively world history, Pamela Toler not only introduces us to women who took up arms, she also shows why they did it and what happened when they stepped out of their traditional female roles to take on other identities. These are the stories of women who fought because they wanted to, because they had to, or because they could. Among the warriors you’ll meet are: * Tomyris, ruler of the Massagetae, who killed Cyrus the Great of Persia when he sought to invade her lands * The West African ruler Amina of Hausa, who led her warriors in a campaign of territorial expansion for more than 30 years * Boudica, who led the Celtic tribes of Britain into a massive rebellion against the Roman Empire to avenge the rapes of her daughters * The Trung sisters, Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, who led an untrained army of 80,000 troops to drive the Chinese empire out of Vietnam * The Joshigun, a group of 30 combat-trained Japanese women who fought against the forces of the Meiji emperor in the late 19th century * Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi, who was regarded as the “bravest and best” military leader in the 1857 Indian Mutiny against British rule * Maria Bochkareva, who commanded Russia’s first all-female battalion—the First Women’s Battalion of Death—during WWII * Buffalo Calf Road Woman, the Cheyenne warrior who knocked General Custer off his horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn * Juana Azurduy de Padilla, a mestiza warrior who fought in at least 16 major battles against colonizers of Latin America and who is a national hero in Bolivia and Argentina today * And many more spanning from ancient times through the 20th century. By considering the ways in which their presence has been erased from history, Toler reveals that women have always fought—not in spite of being women but because they are women.
The Real Valkyrie
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Author : Nancy Marie Brown
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2021-09-17
The Real Valkyrie written by Nancy Marie Brown and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-17 with History categories.
In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden, was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history and literature to reinvent her life and times, showing that Viking women had more power and agency than historians have imagined. Nancy Marie Brown links the Birka warrior, whom she names Hervor, to Viking trading towns and to their great trade route east to Byzantium and beyond. She imagines Hervor's adventures intersecting with larger-than-life but real women, including Queen Gunnhild Mother-of-Kings, the Viking leader known as the Red Girl, and Queen Olga of Kyiv. Hervor's short, dramatic life shows that much of what we have taken as truth about women in the Viking Age is based not on data but on nineteenth-century Victorian biases. Rather than holding the household keys, Viking women in history, the sagas, poetry and myth carry weapons. In this compelling narrative, Brown brings the world of those valkyries and shield-maids to vivid life.
Women Rulers Hidden In History
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Author : Sarah Eason
language : en
Publisher: Hidden History
Release Date : 2020
Women Rulers Hidden In History written by Sarah Eason and has been published by Hidden History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Ruling queens and politicians are not unusual today, but the stories of their ancestors are often lost in time. This amazing book brings the remarkable lives of ruling women to light, examining the historic evidence that women have always been great and powerful leaders. Discover rulers throughout history, from the most powerful women in Europe, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife to one king and mother to two others, to Mandukhai Katan, Mongol ruler and �second Ghenghis Khan.�
Wake
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Author : Rebecca Hall
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Wake written by Rebecca Hall and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
'A must-read graphic history. . . an inspired and inspiring defence of heroic women whose struggles could be fuel for a more just future' Guardian 'Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery' Angela Y. Davis Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. With in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, she constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom on slave ships bound to America, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. Beneath both is Hall's own tale: of a life lived in the shadow of slavery and its consequences. Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy. Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake.
Women Warriors
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Author : David E. Jones
language : en
Publisher:
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Women Warriors written by David E. Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Women and the military categories.
A Brief History Of The Amazons
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Author : Lyn Webster Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
A Brief History Of The Amazons written by Lyn Webster Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Amazons categories.
'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality. North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords and armour. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Thermiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults, and an armed, bisexual goddess--all possible sources for the ferocious women.
Wake
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Author : Rebecca Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Wake written by Rebecca Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS categories.
"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black woman in today's America; it is a historiography that illuminates both the challenges and the necessity of uncovering the true stories of slavery; and it is an overdue reckoning with slavery in New York City where two of these armed revolts took place. It is, also, a transformative and transporting work of imaginative fiction, bringing to three-dimensional life Adono and Alele and their pasts as women warriors. In so doing, WAKE illustrates the humanity of the enslaved, the reality of their lived experiences, and the complexity of the history that has been, till now, so thoroughly erased"--
A Brief History Of The Amazons
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Author : Lyn Webster Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-03-10
A Brief History Of The Amazons written by Lyn Webster Wilde and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with History categories.
'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality. North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords and armour. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Thermiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults, and an armed, bisexual goddess - all possible sources for the ferocious women. Combining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has produced a coherent and absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions, still disturbingly widespread, of what men and women can do.