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Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

Author : Pietro Pinti
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 161145980X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant written by Pietro Pinti and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pietro Pinti, born as he says 'in the Middle Ages,' worked the land with hoe and plow from his earliest youth. Growing up under Mussolini's Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, he and his family lived under conditions of extreme poverty, as sharecroppers to generally unscrupulous landowners. But during World War II, when millions in towns and cities suffered untold hardships, the hardy Tuscan peasants were well equipped to face the rigors of the era: war or no war, work on the land went on, and Pietro describes month by month a typical year in their lives: how they made wine and olive oil, planted and harvested the wheat by hand, made baskets and ladders from chestnut wood-skills now lost. With sly wit and salty wisdom, Pietro, a natural storyteller who played the trumpet, wrote poetry, and grew famous for his tales of peasants, knights, and brigands, recreates in colorful detail a world and peasant culture that is fast disappearing. Jenny Bawtree, an Englishwoman long settled in Tuscany, was so fascinated by Pietro's stories that she helped shape them into this autobiography, full of color and humor, hardship and nostalgia.

The Peasant of the Garonne

Author : Jacques Maritain
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610975642
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant of the Garonne written by Jacques Maritain and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At eighty-five, Jacques Maritain, the most distinguished Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century, has written what he offers as his last book, and it turns out to be a shocker. The peasant, as Maritain calls himself in the title, is a man who calls a spade a spade; and a storm of controversy descended immediately on the book's publication in France, as both Right and Left reeled from the force of Maritain's criticism.The Peasant of the Garonne is a sharp attack on the new philosophy, hoping to cool off the fever for change that Maritain believes is imperiling the church's traditional spirituality and even the substance of doctrine. There is sardonic humor in his treatment of Teilhardians, phenomenologists, existentialists, new-style biblical critics, and clerical Freudians, but Maritain is deeply serious in warning that their capitulation to fashioniable trends represents a kind of kneeling before the world.

The Techno/peasant Survival Manual

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Techno/peasant Survival Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peasant Prince

Author : Alex Storozynski
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429966076
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant Prince written by Alex Storozynski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence was placed on his head (when he dared court a woman above his station), he came to America one month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, literally showing up on Benjamin Franklin's doorstep in Philadelphia with little more than a revolutionary spirit and a genius for engineering. Entering the fray as a volunteer in the war effort, he quickly proved his capabilities and became the most talented engineer of the Continental Army. Kosciuszko went on to construct the fortifications for Philadelphia, devise battle plans that were integral to the American victory at the pivotal Battle of Saratoga, and designed the plans for Fortress West Point—the same plans that were stolen by Benedict Arnold. Then, seeking new challenges, Kosciuszko asked for a transfer to the Southern Army, where he oversaw a ring of African-American spies. A lifelong champion of the common man and woman, he was ahead of his time in advocating tolerance and standing up for the rights of slaves, Native Americans, women, serfs, and Jews. Following the end of the war, Kosciuszko returned to Poland and was a leading figure in that nation's Constitutional movement. He became Commander in Chief of the Polish Army and valiantly led a defense against a Russian invasion, and in 1794 he led what was dubbed the Kosciuszko Uprising—a revolt of Polish-Lithuanian forces against the Russian occupiers. Captured during the revolt, he was ultimately pardoned by Russia's Paul I and lived the remainder of his life as an international celebrity and a vocal proponent for human rights. Thomas Jefferson, with whom Kosciuszko had an ongoing correspondence on the immorality of slaveholding, called him "as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known." A lifelong bachelor with a knack for getting involved in doomed relationships, Kosciuszko navigated the tricky worlds of royal intrigue and romance while staying true to his ultimate passion—the pursuit of freedom for all. This definitive and exhaustively researched biography fills a long-standing gap in historical literature with its account of a dashing and inspiring revolutionary figure.

The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Author : Wayne S. Vucinich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804706384
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia written by Wayne S. Vucinich and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.

Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949

Author : Xiaorong Han
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483924
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949 written by Xiaorong Han and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals' writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant—a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants.

The Peasant's Clever Daughter

Author : Brothers Grimm
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726591154
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant's Clever Daughter written by Brothers Grimm and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A peasant found a golden mortar and as an honest and loyal man, he decided to give it to the king. The king was however not pleased. He wanted the pestle as well. He thought that the peasant had stolen it but as you know no such thing had happened. The peasant got locked up in the castle. If he had listened to his wise daughter’s words, he would not be imprisoned. The king heard the poor man’s grumbles and his curiosity awoke. Was this girl really that smart? He was going to find out. Children and adults alike, immerse yourselves into Grimm’s world of folktales and legends! Come, discover the little-known tales and treasured classics in this collection of 210 fairy tales. Brothers Grimm are probably the best-known storytellers in the world. Some of their most popular fairy tales are "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Red Riding Hood" and there is hardly anybody who has not grown up with the adventures of Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel and Snow White. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s exceptional literature legacy consists of recorded German and European folktales and legends. Their collections have been translated into all European languages in their lifetime and into every living language today.

The Peasant Poets of Scotland and Musings Under Beeches

Author : Henry Shanks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant Poets of Scotland and Musings Under Beeches written by Henry Shanks and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peasant's Home, 1760-1875

Author : Edward Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385518601
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant's Home, 1760-1875 written by Edward Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Paris Peasant

Author : Aragon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Paris Peasant written by Aragon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism. Unconventional in form and fiercely modern, Aragon uses the city of Paris as a framework interlacing text with the city's ephemera: cafe menus, maps, monument inscriptions, newspaper cuttings and the lives of its citizens. No one could have been a more astute detector of the unwanted in all its forms; no one else could have been carried away by such intoxicating reveries about a sort of secret life of the city...' Andre Breton'

The Peasant's Death; Or, A Visit to the House of Mourning: and Other Poems

Author : John Struthers (of Glasgow.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant's Death; Or, A Visit to the House of Mourning: and Other Poems written by John Struthers (of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peasant's Posy; Consisting of Miscellaneous Poems, Sonnets and Songs

Author : Robert MACBURNIE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant's Posy; Consisting of Miscellaneous Poems, Sonnets and Songs written by Robert MACBURNIE and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The chimney-sweeper's complaint [in verse] by the author of The peasant's fate

Author : William Holloway (poet.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The chimney-sweeper's complaint [in verse] by the author of The peasant's fate written by William Holloway (poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peasant Queen

Author : Cheri Chesley
Publisher : Bonneville
ISBN 13 : 9781599554167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant Queen written by Cheri Chesley and published by Bonneville. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After running away from home, Krystal is transported to a faraway kingdom where an evil tyrant is bent on taking the crown - and Krystal's hand in marriage. But when she falls in love with the rightful heir to the throne, she must make an impossible choice: sacrifice her one chance at happiness or face the destruction of an entire kingdom.

The Peasant in Postsocialist China

Author : Alexander F. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039673
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant in Postsocialist China written by Alexander F. Day and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical new appraisal of the role of the peasant in post-socialist China, putting recent debates into historical perspective.

The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China

Author : Philip Huang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804780995
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China written by Philip Huang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1985-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a convincing new interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian crisis that gripped the North China Plain in the two centuries before the Revolution. His extensive research included eighteenth-century homicide case records, a nineteenth-century country government archive, large quantities of 1930's Japanese ethnographic materials, and his own field studies in 1980. Through a comparison of the histories of small family farms and larger scale managerial farms, the author documents and illustrates the long-term trends of agricultural commercialization, social stratification, and mounting population pressure in the peasant economy. He shows how those changes, in the absence of dynamic economic growth, combined over the course of several centuries to produce a majority, not simply of land-short peasants or of exploited tenants and agricultural laborers, but of poor peasants who required both family farming and agricultural wage income to survive. This interlocking of family farming with wage labor furnished a large supply of cheap labor, which in turn acted as a powerful brake of capital accumulation in the economy. The formation of such a poor peasantry ultimately altered both the nature of village communities and their relations with the elites and the state, creating tensions that led in the end to revolution.

Images of the Medieval Peasant

Author : Paul H. Freedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804733731
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Images of the Medieval Peasant written by Paul H. Freedman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their lowliness was commonly regarded as a natural corollary of the drudgery of their agricultural toil. Yet, at the same time, the peasantry was not viewed as “other” in the manner of other condemned groups, such as Jews, lepers, Muslims, or the imagined “monstrous races” of the East. Several crucial characteristics of the peasantry rendered it less clearly alien from the elite perspective: peasants were not a minority, their work in the fields nourished all other social orders, and, most important, they were Christians. In other respects, peasants could be regarded as meritorious by virtue of their simple life, productive work, and unjust suffering at the hands of their exploitive social superiors. Their unrewarded sacrifice and piety were also sometimes thought to place them closest to God and more likely to win salvation. This book examines these conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants’ War. It relates the representation of peasants to debates about how society should be organized (specifically, to how human equality at Creation led to subordination), how slavery and serfdom could be assailed or defended, and how peasants themselves structured and justified their demands. Though it was argued that peasants were legitimately subjugated by reason of nature or some primordial curse (such as that of Noah against his son Ham), there was also considerable unease about how the exploitation of those who were not completely alien—who were, after all, Christians—could be explained. Laments over peasant suffering as expressed in the literature might have a stylized quality, but this book shows how they were appropriated and shaped by peasants themselves, especially in the large-scale rebellions that characterized the late Middle Ages.