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Isabella the warrior queen

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 in...

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Main Author: Downey, Kirstin
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Isabella > I, > Queen of Spain, > 1451-1504.
Queens > Spain > Biography.
Spain > History > Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:x, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-495) and index.
ISBN:9780385534116 (hbk.)
0385534116 (hbk.)
Author Notes:KIRSTIN DOWNEY is the author of The Woman Behind the New Deal , which was a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was one of the writers of the New York Times bestselling Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, and was previously a staff writer at the Washington Post , where she shared in the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. She was a Neiman fellow at Harvard University in 2001. She is married to Neil Warner Averitt, and together they have five children.

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