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.
Download or read book Mar a de Molina Queen and Regent written by Paulette Lynn Pepin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Queen María de Molina thematically explores her life and demonstrates her collective exercise of power and authority as queen. Throughout her public life, María de Molina’s resilient determination, as queen and later as regent, enabled her to not only work tirelessly to establish an effective governing partnership with her husband King Sancho IV, which never occurred, but also to establish the legitimacy of her children and their heirs and their right to rule. Such legitimacy enabled Queen María de Molina’s son and grandson, under her tutelage, to fend off other monarchs and belligerent nobles. The author demonstrates the queen’s ability to govern the Kingdom of Castile-León as a partner with her husband King Sancho IV, a partnership that can be described as an official union. A major theme of this study is María de Molina’s role as dowager queen and regent as she continued to exercise her queenly power and authority to protect the throne of her son Fernando IV and, later, of her grandson Alfonso XI, and to provide peace and stability for the Kingdom of Castile-León.
Download or read book Death of the queen dowager a poem written by Henry Boyd (writer of verse.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adelaide the Queen Dowager A sermon etc written by Rev. Henry BEDFORD (Curate of Christ Church, Hoxton.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case of the King and Queen Dowager written by and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Elizabeth Farnesio written by Elizabeth Farnese (consort of Philip V, King of Spain) and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Empress written by Anchee Min and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Vivid and entertaining ... this is history as it plays upon the emotions. Empires crumble, hearts are broken' THE TIMES From the bestselling author of Red Azalea comes the much-anticipated sequel to Empress Orchid At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating personal losses. In this sequel to the bestselling Empress Orchid, Anchee Min brings to life one of the most important figures in Chinese history, a very human leader who sacrifices all she has to protect both those she loves and her doomed empire.
Download or read book Queen Mother and Stateswoman written by Silvia Z. Mitchell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Philip IV of Spain died in 1665, his heir, Carlos II, was three years old. In addition to this looming dynastic crisis, decades of enormous military commitments had left Spain a virtually bankrupt state with vulnerable frontiers and a depleted army. In Silvia Z. Mitchell’s revisionist account, Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman, Queen Regent Mariana of Austria emerges as a towering figure at court and on the international stage, while her key collaborators—the secretaries, ministers, and diplomats who have previously been ignored or undervalued—take their rightful place in history. Mitchell provides a nuanced account of Mariana of Austria’s ten-year regency (1665–75) of the global Spanish Empire and examines her subsequent role as queen mother. Drawing from previously unmined primary sources, including Council of State deliberations, diplomatic correspondence, Mariana’s and Carlos’s letters, royal household papers, manuscripts, and legal documents, Mitchell describes how, over the course of her regency, Mariana led the monarchy out of danger and helped redefine the military and diplomatic blocs of Europe in Spain’s favor. She follows Mariana’s exile from court and recounts how the dowager queen used her extensive connections and diplomatic experience to move the negotiations for her son’s marriage forward, effectively exploiting the process to regain her position. A new narrative of the Spanish Habsburg monarchy in the later seventeenth century, this volume advances our knowledge of women’s legitimate political entitlement in the early modern period. It will be welcomed by scholars and students of queenship, women’s studies, and early modern Spain.
Download or read book The Queen Dowager written by M J Porter and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No woman had ever held so much power and lost it on the whim of her son, the king. Six years of political ostracism has brought Lady Elfrida low. Desperate to be welcomed back to court, she risks all to make an ally of England's Viking enemy. Failure risks exile. Forever.Book 2 in The King's Mother Trilogy, the sequel to The First Queen of England trilogy.Suggested reading order: The King's MotherThe Queen DowagerOnce A QueenPraise for The King's Mother."An excellent read about a strong, intelligent woman!!" Amazon Reviewer"Loved every minute of the series couldn't put it down." Amazon Reviewer""Porter manages to create a lifetime story out of a few charters and genealogies. And of course the Anglo Saxon Chronicles. Amazing!!!" Amazon Reviewer"Such a good insight to the time and people and the real game of thrones." Amazon ReviewerABOUT THE AUTHORI'm an author of fantasy (Viking age/dragon themed) and historical fiction (Anglo-Saxon, Vikings and the British Isles as a whole before the Norman Conquest), born in the old Mercian kingdom at some point since the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Raised in the shadow of a strange little building and told from a very young age that it housed the bones of the long-dead kings of Mercia, it's little wonder that my curiosity in the Anglo-Saxons ran riot. I can only blame my parents!I write A LOT. You've been warned!Find me at www.mjporterauthor.com and @coloursofunison on twitter
Download or read book The History of the Life and Reign of Mary Queen of Scots and Dowager of France written by Samuel Jebb and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Widowed Queen Or Elizabeth Dowager of Edward IV Delivering Up Her Second Son from Sanctuary And Philippa to Edward III Being a Poem and Oration Etc written by Jerome ALLEY (LL.B., Rector of the Parishes of Beaulieu and Drumcarr.) and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Katherine Queen Dowager written by Jean Evans and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Poem humbly dedicated to the great Patern of Piety and Virtue Catherine Queen Dowager on the Death of her dear Lord King Charles II written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1685 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Dutchess of Marlborough written by Nathaniel Hooke and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough written by Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diary of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples 1781 1785 written by Cinzia Recca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and betrayals. A careful examination of the period (1781-1785) covered by the diary shows that the daily life of the Queen and offers key evidence of her political acumen and her personal relationships. Recca cross-analyses unpublished personal documents, which include the integral diary and private correspondence. The book focuses on the political influence that Queen Maria Carolina wielded beside her husband, King Ferdinand IV, and the criticism that has been made by contemporary historians and intellectuals who have often tended to discredit the sovereign for personal rather than political reasons.
Download or read book An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough from Her First Coming to Court to the Year 1710 in a Letter from Herself to Mylord by Hooke written by Sarah Jennings Churchill Marlborough (Duchesse de Marlborough.) and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
