Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries - How Women (Also) Built the World

History, completed. ''Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women'' - Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient Assassin Moving, illuminating and deeply personal, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is for everyone who has ever questioned how history is made. In this alternative and inspiring history, Kate Mosse shines a light on nearly 1,000 women from across the globe whose names and achievements deserve to be celebrated, not forgotten: Rachel Carson, mother of the modern environmental movement Ethel Smyth, unheralded British composer and virtuoso Pauli Murray, pioneering US civil rights activist and lawyer Jean Batten, record-breaking New Zealand aviator Doria Shafik, Egyptian poet and women''s liberation leader Cornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian women''s rights campaigner Anne Bonny, legendary eighteenth-century pirate and rogue And as she researches the lives of these ground-breaking women, she embarks on a detective story to uncover a forgotten superstar, reflecting the desire of so many people to trace their family''s past . . . ''A must-have for history lovers and feminists'' - Glamour ''A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love'' - Professor Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens ''A powerful panorama of the extraordinary achievements of a wonderful cast of women - both famous and hidden - down the millennia'' - Professor Jonathan Phillips, historian and author of The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin

Product details

• Authors: Kate Mosse, Mosse Kate
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781529092233
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-9223-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, Collected biographies, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, History: earliest times to present day, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Family history, tracing ancestors, General and world history, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: historical, political and military, International Women’s Day, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours