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Author : William Kaye Lamb
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book "Empress to the Orient" written by William Kaye Lamb and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Kaye Lamb
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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book "Empress to the Orient." written by William Kaye Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Peirce
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093094
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Empress of the East written by Leslie Peirce and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "fascinating . . . lively" story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times). In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul. Suleyman became besotted with her and foreswore all other concubines. Then, in an unprecedented step, he freed her and married her. The bold and canny Roxelana soon became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, who helped Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women, from Isabella of Hungary to Catherine de Medici, increasingly held the reins of power. Until now Roxelana has been seen as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but in Empress of the East, Peirce reveals the true history of an elusive figure who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.
Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547347200
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Empress Orchid written by Anchee Min and published by HMH. This book was released on 2005-04-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha . . . A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman” (Houston Chronicle). A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year From Anchee Min, a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China’s last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of the country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this “absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao,” readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min’s lavish evocation of the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world (The New York Times). “Superb . . . [An] unforgettable heroine.” —People “A sexually charged, eye-opening portrayal of the Chinese empire . . . with heart-wrenching scenes of desperate failure and a sensuality that rises off its heated pages.” —Elle
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Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Presenting the New Empress of Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 1930* with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Elia Yonan
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271037226
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Habsburg Imperial Art written by Michael Elia Yonan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the intersections between monarchy, gender, and art through an investigation of the visual and architectural culture of the eighteenth-century Habsburg empress Maria Theresa"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Holstein-Friesian Association of America
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Total Pages : 1670 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Holstein-Friesian Herd-book written by Holstein-Friesian Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sale of the American-Oriental Mail Line by the United States Shipping Board written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
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Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sale of the American-Oriental Mail Line by the United States Shipping Board written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Potvin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147259665X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Oriental Interiors written by John Potvin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing their critical attention on the literary and pictorial arts, these studies have, to date, largely neglected the world of interior design. Oriental Interiors is the first book to fully explore the formation and perception of eastern-inspired interiors from an orientalist perspective. Orientalist spaces in the West have taken numerous forms since the 18th century to the present day, and the fifteen chapters in this collection reflect that diversity, dealing with subjects as varied and engaging as harems, Turkish baths on RMS Titanic, Parisian bachelor quarters, potted palms, and contemporary yoga studios. It explores how furnishings, surface treatments, ornament and music, for example, are deployed to enhance the exoticism and pleasures of oriental spaces, looking across a range of international locations. Organized into three parts, each introduced by the editor, the essays are grouped by theme to highlight critical paths into the intersections between orientalist studies, spatial theory, design studies, visual culture and gender studies, making this essential reading for students and researchers alike.
Author : Edward Gibbon
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Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Guizot's Gibbon written by Edward Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael St. Clair
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611479118
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Great Chinese Art Transfer written by Michael St. Clair and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal chaos allowed imperial and private Chinese collections to be scattered, looted and sold. A remarkable and varied group of Westerners entered the country, had their eyes opened to centuries of Chinese creativity and gathered up paintings, bronzes and ceramics, as well as sculptures, jades and bronzes. The migration to America and Europe of China’s art is one of the greatest outflows of a culture’s artistic heritage in human history. A good deal of the art procured by collectors and dealers, some famous and others little known but all remarkable in individual ways, eventually wound up in American and European museums. Today some of the art still in private hands is returning to China via international auctions and aggressive purchases by Chinese millionaires.
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Total Pages : 2036 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Industrial Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ida M. Tarbell
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, with a Sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French written by Ida M. Tarbell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, with a Sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French" by Ida M. Tarbell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Pallavi Pandit Laisram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317809297
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Viewing the Islamic Orient written by Pallavi Pandit Laisram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islamic Orient studies the travel accounts of four British travelers during the nineteenth century. Through a critical analysis of these works, the author examines and questions Edward Said’s concept of "Orientalism" and "Orientalist" discourse: his argument that the orientalist view had such a strong influence on westerners that they invariably perceived the orient through the lens of orientalism. On the contrary, the author argues, no single factor had an overwhelming influence on them. She shows that westerners often struggled with their own conceptions of the orient, and being away for long periods from their homelands, were in fact able to stand between cultures and view them both as insiders and outsiders. The literary devices used to examine these writings are structure, characterization, satire, landscape description, and word choice, as also the social and political milieu of the writers. The major influences in the author’s analysis are Said, Foucault, Abdel-Malek and Marie Louise Pratt.
Author : Filippo Carlà-Uhink
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350050113
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World written by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek–Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and modern stereotypes: both the Orient and the idea of a woman in power are signs, in the Western tradition, of 'otherness' – and in this sense they can easily overlap and interchange. This volume investigates how ancient women, and particularly powerful women, such as queens and empresses, have been re-imagined in Western (and not only Western) arts; highlights how this re-imagination and re-visualization is, more often than not, the product of Orientalist stereotypes – even when dealing with women who had nothing to do with Eastern regions; and compares these images with examples of Eastern gaze on the same women. Through the chapters in this volume, readers will discover the similarities and differences in the ways in which women in power were and still are described and decried by their opponents.
Author : Christian Rollinger
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1835532470
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Empresses-in-Waiting written by Christian Rollinger and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empresses-in-Waiting comprises case studies of late antique empresses, female members of imperial dynasties, and female members of the highest nobility of the late Roman empire, ranging from the fourth to the seventh centuries AD. Situated in the context of the broader developments of scholarship on late antique and byzantine empresses, this volume explores the political agency, religious authority, and influence of imperial and near-imperial women within the Late Roman imperial court, which is understood as a complex spatial, social, and cultural system, the centre of patronage networks, and an arena for elite competition. The studies explore female performance and representation in literary and visual media as well as in court ceremonial, and discuss the opportunities and constraints of female power within a male dominated court environment and the broader realms of imperial activity. By focusing on imperial women, the volume not only addresses questions of gendered rhetoric and agency but throws into relief general dynamics in the exercise of imperial power during a period in which the classical Mediterranean world at large, as well as the Roman monarchy, underwent crucial transformations.
