This volume presents a personal selection of great kings and queens, the word ‘great’ implying no moral judgment but used as a simple descriptive label for those whose significance for good or bad has been considerable. Most of them exercised absolute or near – absolute power, for the emergence of the constitutional monarch is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Also included are rulers who seemed to partake wholly or to a large extent in the royal mystique. Thus there is a certain resemblance between, say, Pericles, on the one hand and Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on the other.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rupa (1 July 1988)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 672 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8171675220

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9788171675227