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Author : Mary McArthur T. (Mary McArthur Tuttle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781372770562
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book MOTHER OF AN EMPEROR written by Mary McArthur T. (Mary McArthur Tuttle and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. Harry Rothschild
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539185
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers written by N. Harry Rothschild and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wu Zhao (624–705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she—in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society—ascend the dragon throne? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted history suggests that China's rich pantheon of female divinities and eminent women played an integral part in the construction of Wu Zhao's sovereignty. Wu Zhao deftly deployed language, symbol, and ideology to harness the cultural resonance, maternal force, divine energy, and historical weight of Buddhist devis, Confucian exemplars, Daoist immortals, and mythic goddesses, establishing legitimacy within and beyond the confines of Confucian ideology. Tapping into powerful subterranean reservoirs of female power, Wu Zhao built a pantheon of female divinities carefully calibrated to meet her needs at court. Her pageant was promoted in scripted rhetoric, reinforced through poetry, celebrated in theatrical productions, and inscribed on steles. Rendered with deft political acumen and aesthetic flair, these affiliations significantly enhanced Wu Zhao's authority and cast her as the human vessel through which the pantheon's divine energy flowed. Her strategy is a model of political brilliance and proof that medieval Chinese women enjoyed a more complex social status than previously known.
Author : Mary McArthur Thompson Tuttle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Mother of an Emperor written by Mary McArthur Thompson Tuttle and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Otsuka
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307430219
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book When the Emperor Was Divine written by Julie Otsuka and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.
Author : Mary McArthur Thompson Tuttle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Mother of an Emperor written by Mary McArthur Thompson Tuttle and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary McArthur Thompson Tuttle
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781011322459
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The Mother Of An Emperor written by Mary McArthur Thompson Tuttle and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439170916
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Author : Richard Arthur Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Imperial House of Japan written by Richard Arthur Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Stone Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190231629
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Constantine the Emperor written by David Stone Potter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a critical eye aimed at earlier accounts of Constantine's life, the author aims to provide the most comprehensive, authoritative and readable account of the Roman emperor's extraordinary life.
Author : Mary McArthur Tuttle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483305892
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Mother of an Emperor written by Mary McArthur Tuttle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mother of an Emperor: Reprints From Pen and Brush HE permission to make the drawings contained in this collee tion, was procured by my husband, through the Hon. Nicholas Fish, who was the American Secretary of Legation during the years of our residence in Berlin. Mr. Fish secured from the Hof marshallant the rare opportunity which the original letter given opposite explains. Through the position of my husband as Berlin correspondent of 7726 London Daily News and American historian of Prussia, I was accorded every facility while making these sketches in the Charlottenburg and Monbijou palaces. As they are the only sketches of the kind I know of, they will be of interest, I trust, even to advanced students in Prussian history. The excellent sales and pleasant reception of this short study of the life of Queen Louise justifies me in bringing out a second edition, with some additional Reprints from travel and life on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anthony A. Barrett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400881102
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Emperor Nero written by Anthony A. Barrett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nero's reign (AD 54–68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians—not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war. The Emperor Nero gathers into a single collection the major sources for Nero's life and rule, providing students of Nero and ancient Rome with the most authoritative and accessible reader there is. The Emperor Nero features clear, contemporary translations of key literary sources along with translations and explanations of representative inscriptions and coins issued under Nero. The informative introduction situates the emperor's reign within the history of the Roman Empire, and the book's concise headnotes to chapters place the source material in historical and biographical context. Passages are accompanied by detailed notes and are organized around events, such as the Great Fire of Rome, or by topic, such as Nero's relationships with his wives. Complex events like the war with Parthia—split up among several chapters in Tacitus's Annals—are brought together in continuous narratives, making this the most comprehensible and user-friendly sourcebook on Nero available. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Author : Tracene Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429648502
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Julia Augusta written by Tracene Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of Augustus’s wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in other visual media and reveals the detailed visual language that was developed for the promotion of Livia as the predominant female in the Roman imperial family. The book provides the most comprehensive examination of all extant coins of Livia to date, and provides one of the first studies on the images on Roman coins as gender-infused designs, which created a visual dialogue regarding Livia’s power and gender-roles in relation to those of male members of the imperial family. While the appearance of Roman women on coins was not entirely revolutionary, having roughly coincided with the introduction of images of powerful Roman statesmen to coins in the late 40s BCE, the degree to which Livia came to be commemorated on coins in the provinces and in Rome was unprecedented. This volume provides unique insights into the impact of these representations of Livia, both on coins and in other visual media. Julia Augusta: Images of Rome’s First Empress on the Coins of the Roman Empire will be of great interest to students of women and imperial imagery in the Roman Empire, as well as the importance of visual representation and Roman imperial ideology.
Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307363120
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Empress Dowager Cixi written by Jung Chang and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the unusual woman who ruled China for 50 years, from concubine to Empress, overturning centuries of traditions and formalities to bring China into the modern world. A woman, an Empress of immense wealth who was largely a prisoner within the compound walls of her palaces, a mother, a ruthless enemy, and a brilliant strategist: Chang makes a compelling case that Cixi was one of the most formidable and enlightened rulers of any nation. Cixi led an intense and singular life. Chosen at the age of 12 to be a concubine by the Emperor Xianfeng, she gave birth to his only male heir who at four was designated Emperor when his father died in 1861. In a brilliant move, the young woman enlisted the help of the Emperor's widow and the two women orchestrated a coup that ousted the regents and made Cixi sole Regent. Untrained and untaught, the two studied history and politics together, ruling the huge nation from behind a curtain. When her boy died, Cixi designated a young nephew as Emperor, continuing her reign till her death in 1908. Chang gives us a complex, riveting portrait of Cixi through a reign as long as that of her fellow Empress, Victoria, whom she longed to meet: her ruthlessness in fighting off rivals; her curiosity to learn; her reliance on Westerners who she placed in key positions; and her sensitivity and desire to preserve the distinctiveness of China's past while overturning traditions (she, as Chang reveals--not Mao, as he claimed--banned footbinding) and exposing its culture to western ideas and technology.
Author : Claire Messud
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030727666X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Emperor's Children written by Claire Messud and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite—an “It” girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray Thwaite, celebrated intellectual and journalist—and her two closest friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing television producer, and Julius, a cash-strapped freelance critic. The delicious complications that arise among them become dangerous when Murray’s nephew, Frederick “Bootie” Tubb, an idealistic college dropout determined to make his mark, comes to town. As the skies darken, it is Bootie’s unexpected decisions—and their stunning, heartbreaking outcome—that will change each of their lives forever. A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—of innocence and experience, seduction and self-invention; of ambition, including literary ambition; of glamour, disaster, and promise—The Emperor’s Children is a tour de force that brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment. A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year
Author : James Bogle
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852441732
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (417 download)
Download or read book A Heart for Europe written by James Bogle and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brenda Z. Guiberson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805076360
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Emperor Lays an Egg written by Brenda Z. Guiberson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the activities of mother and father emperor penguins as they share the duties involved in laying and nurturing eggs, and caring for the newly hatched penguins.
Author : Stephen L. Carter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307279936
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Emperor of Ocean Park written by Stephen L. Carter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out the arrangements his father left behind.
