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The female side of power
Here the reader encounters strong women who came to power or took it: warriors and queens, empresses and leaders, women who gathered armies behind them, went to war, ruled peoples and empires and took the destinies of their countries into their hands and changed them. For a long time, the female gender did not play a role in history, because it was the history of men. But war and power are by no means exclusively a male domain, as this book proves.
Caroline Vongries tells in an entertaining and knowledgeable way how different the paths to power were and how lastingly these women ruled and conquered. The author introduces us to some of the most interesting women in world history in fascinating portraits, including the pharaohs Hatshepsut and Cleopatra, the empresses Helena and Maria Theresia, the great queens Elisabeth I and Victoria, the Minerva of the north Christina of Sweden, Eleonore of Aquitaine or the legendary Joan of Arc - the Virgin of Orleans. Some of the women in the book are barely mentioned in history books and unjustifiably lead a shadowy existence in the memory of mankind. Remembering them is also a merit of this book.
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Author Biography
Caroline Vongries (born in 1963) has been living and working in Saxony-Anhalt for more than 20 years. There she is involved in the development of the Hohenerxleben castle into a cultural site. She has been writing books since 2009. The literary scholar and journalist is particularly interested in images of women and men, human life throughout the ages. For more than twenty years she has been a lecturer in creative writing and runs her own press and literature office. Since 2013, she has held teaching positions at the state's universities and since 2015 she has also been giving German courses for refugees.
BuchVerlag für die Frau GmbH
The traditional publishing house is one of Germany's best-known advice publishers and has been based in Leipzig for 75 years. Emerging from the former Verlag für die Frau, the largest fashion and advice publisher in the GDR, today's BuchVerlag für die Frau successfully continues the book programme. Today, it is a constant on the German book market as a whole. The program is strongly positioned in the culinary field, which includes the cookbook classics "We cook well" and "Das Backbuch" as well as the Thuringian kitchen library. Another successful series is the mini-library, which now contains 360 volumes. First published in 1985, it will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2020. The publishing program is rounded off with titles on nature, health, life assistance and an extensive hobby & creative area. Since 2015, BuchVerlag has been part of the publishing group "grunes herz®", a successful medium-sized publishing company with offices in Thuringia and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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- Publisher BuchVerlag für die Frau
- Publication Date October 2019
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783897985582
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 9.95 EUR
- Pages96
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions16.5 x 12 cm
- Illustrationwith colour photos
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