The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story...

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The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth's secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps

We think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas, but when Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen, it was just a tiny and rebellious Protestant island on the fringes of Europe, confronting the combined power of the papacy and of Catholic Spain. Broke and under siege, the young queen sought to build new alliances with the great powers of the Muslim world. She sent an emissary to the Shah of Iran, wooed the king of Morocco, and entered into an unprecedented alliance with the Ottoman Sultan Murad III, with whom she shared a lively correspondence.

The Sultan and the Queen tells the riveting and largely unknown story of the traders and adventurers who first went East to seek their fortunes-and reveals how Elizabeth's fruitful alignment with the Islamic world, financed by England's first joint stock companies, paved the way for its transformation into a global commercial empire.

Über den Autor

Jerry Brotton is a professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary University of London. A renowned broadcaster and critic, he is the author of Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West (with Lisa Jardine), The Renaissance Bazaar, The Sale of the Late King's Goods, a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, Great Maps, and The New York Times bestselling, award-winning A History of the World in Twelve Maps, which has been translated into eleven languages. The Sultan and the Queen published as This Orient Isle in the UK, was a Financial Times Book of the Year.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Neuzeit
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780143110620
ISBN-10:	0143110624
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Brotton, Jerry
Hersteller:	Penguin Random House LLC
Maße:	228 x 151 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Jerry Brotton
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.09.2017
Gewicht:	0,393 kg

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