Isabella: the warrior queen

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Drawing on new scholarship, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Woman Behind the New Deal presents a biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus' journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition and became one of the most influential female rulers in history.

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Full title :Isabella : the warrior queen / Kirstin Downey.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color), maps ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780385534116, 0385534116, 9780385534123, 0385534124, 9780307742162, 0307742164
oclc:ocn869881346
LC Classification:DP163
Dewey Decimal:946.03092

A birth without fanfare -- A childhood in the shadows -- Frightening years -- Isabella faces the future alone -- Marriage -- Ferdinand and his family -- The newlyweds -- The Borgia connection -- Preparing to rule -- Isabella takes the throne -- The tribe of Isabel -- The whole world trembled -- The queen's war -- Architects of the Inquisition -- Landing in paradise -- Borgia gives her the world -- Lands of vanity and illusion -- Faith and family -- Turks at the door -- Israel in exile -- Three daughters -- A church without a shepherd -- The death of Queen Isabella -- The world after Isabella.

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1479 - 1516 Biographies Biography Espagne -- Histoire -- 1479-1516 (Ferdi… History Isabella, I,, Queen of Spain Isabella, I., Kastilien, Königin Kings, queens, rulers, etc. -- Biography Queens Queens -- Biography. -- Spain Reines -- Biographies. -- Espagne Spain Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabe…