Title:
The Sultan and the Queen : the untold story of Elizabeth and Islam / Jerry Brotton.
ISBN:
9780143110620
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2017.
©2016
Physical Description:
338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain as This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2016."--Title page verso.
"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016."--Title page verso.
Contents:
Conquering Tunis -- The Sultan, the Tsar and the Shah -- The Battle for Barbary -- An Apt Man in Constantinople -- Unholy Alliances -- Sultana Isabel -- London Turns Turk -- Mahomet's Dove -- Escape from the Seraglio -- Sherley Fever -- More than a Moor -- Epilogue.
Summary:
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn968771851
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