Guida M Jackson-Laufer
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
"Here is a royal entourage of queens, empresses, prime ministers, presidents, regents, constitutional monarchs, and other women rulers of the world's empires, nations, and tribes. Their readable biographies cover each ruler's victories and defeats, foibles and triumphs, life and times."--BOOK JACKET. "Women Rulers throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide is based on the author's Women Who Ruled. Many entries have been substantially revised, expanded,...
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
"In the Encyclopedia of Literary Epics, Jackson not only analyzes the monumental works that are the cornerstones of the Western literary canon - from Vergil's Aeneid, the first of the great literary epics of Europe - to twentieth-century works such as Ezra Pound's The Cantos and The Bridge by Hart Crane. She also brings to light hundreds of less familiar poems from both the Western tradition and cultures around the world, including the Swahili Al-Inkishafi,...
