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Female Caligula - Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar by Keith Laidler (Hardcover, 2005)

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'The seven christians stood together in the bright sunlight, bound with ropes singing a hyme to their foreign saviour as the spearmen advanced. Around them a croud of jostling men, women and children, more than sixty thousand strong...cheered enthusiastically as the spears were driven home and, one by one, the men and women fell and writhed on the sandy ground, their hymn fading slowly into silence...above the still writhing bodies, on a ridge, a score of crosses stood in mute witness, carrying their ghastly burdens, some of whom still lived despite the day and a half they had hung upon the wood. As European colonists scrambled for control of Africa, a leader arose in the red island of Madagascar who, through ruthless determination thwarted the combined ambitions of all the major world powers. That leader and the author of this holocaust was no warrior but a diminutive woman of middle years, Ranavalona-Manjaka Queen of Madagascar, know to her subjects more simply as Ma Dieu. Under Ranavalona's despotic rule, hundreds of thousands of her people, possibly one-half of Madagascar's entire population, were murdered, starved or simply worked to death by her express command, while she enjoyed an eccentric and debauched lifestyle. For these characteristics, European history has remembered her reign as that of the Female Caligula.

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN-13
9780470022238
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94733331

Product Key Features

Author
Keith Laidler
Publication Name
Female Caligula-Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
2070mm
Item Width
1590mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Keith Laidler
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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