Female Caligula
Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar
(Sprache: Englisch)
Ounce for ounce as insane as her Roman counterpart, Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar surpassed Caligula s legendary cruelty a million times over. Beginning in 1828, her 35 year reign was measured in bodies: a million of her own subjects were ritually executed; ten thousand slaves perished in a week.
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Ounce for ounce as insane as her Roman counterpart, Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar surpassed Caligula s legendary cruelty a million times over. Beginning in 1828, her 35 year reign was measured in bodies: a million of her own subjects were ritually executed; ten thousand slaves perished in a week.
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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. UnderRanavalona 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Female Caligula “
1. Martyrdom. 2. The Great Red Island. 3. Polynesians and Pirates. 4. Beneath the Heavens. 5. The Malagasy Napoleon. 6. Priestess of the Ancestors. 7. La Visite Amicable. 8. The White Slave. 9. The Queen s Bath. 10. The Coming Storm. 11. Black Versailles. 12. An Embassy to Europe. 13. The Persecutions Begin. 14. The Buffalo Hunt. 15. The Great Conspiracy. 16. Lambert and Laborde. 17. A Strong Desire to See the World . 18. Journey to the Queen. 19. Plots and Pianos. 20. The Coup. 21. The Final Years. Epilogue. Selected Bibliography. Index.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Keith Laidler
- 2005, 232 Seiten, Maße: 21,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 047002223X
- ISBN-13: 9780470022238
Sprache:
Englisch
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