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The Other Half of History
Subtitle: Fifteen Women of Courage, Power, and Defiance
Author: David Fooks (book will be signed by David)
History has a way of making women disappear.
Kings conquered. Generals commanded. Explorers crossed oceans. Their names filled the history books, while women who ruled kingdoms, led armies, resisted empires, navigated dangerous seas, and protected their people were pushed toward the margins.
The Other Half of History restores fifteen extraordinary women to the center of the story.
From Cleopatra’s struggle to preserve Egypt and Boudicca’s revolt against Rome to Gráinne O’Malley’s command of the Irish coast, Nzinga Mbande’s resistance to Portuguese expansion, Ching Shih’s rule over a vast pirate confederation, and Lozen’s defense of the Apache people, these women refused the limits imposed upon them.
They were courageous, ambitious, intelligent, determined—and sometimes ruthless. This book does not turn them into saints. It examines their achievements, failures, contradictions, and the human cost of power.
Vividly told and grounded in history, these fifteen lives reveal a past far richer than the version many of us learned. Women were never merely watching history unfold. They were governing, fighting, negotiating, surviving, and changing the world.
Short Product Description
Fifteen vivid portraits of women who ruled, fought, resisted, negotiated, and survived—from Cleopatra and Boudicca to Ching Shih, Sacagawea, and Lozen. Their lives reveal courage and ambition, but also contradiction, sacrifice, and the cost of power.
