Download or read book The Last Emperors written by Evelyn S. Rawski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Qing Dynasty was the last of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski re-interprets the remarkable success of this dynasty, arguing that it derived not from the assimilation of the dominant Chinese culture but rather from an artful synthesis of Manchu leadership styles with Han Chinese policies.
Download or read book The Emperor s Last Campaign written by Emilio Ocampo and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Literary Award, sponsored by the International Napoleonic Society/La Societe Napoleonienne Internationale of Montreal, Quebec's Literary Committee Napoleon's last campaign didn't end at Waterloo. After that fateful day on June 1815, hundreds if not thousands of veterans of Napoleon's army emigrated to America. Many went farther south and joined the rebels fighting for independence in the Spanish colonies, from Mexico to Buenos Aires. The Bonapartists roiled the Western World as they sought fortune, fame, and glory in the expanding United States and in the tumultuous Spanish Americas suffering from repression and civil disorder, and even in the states of Europe. They were joined by adventurers from other nations who shared their admiration for the fallen emperor. This is the first full-length examination of the Bonapartists who emigrated from France after Napoleon's defeat and exile, who formed a loose confederation with adventurers and romantics, and who contemplated a new empire in the Western Hemisphere. The scheme had the support and encouragement of the fallen emperor himself and his brother Joseph, former King of Spain, who lived in exile in the United States. Emilio Ocampo has examined archives on three continents and sources in several languages to ferret out the evidence--a monumental task considering that conspirators tried to leave no evidence of their plans, and that a failed plot, like failure in general, leaves few claimants. Ocampo reinterprets Latin American independence as an international event that drew in all the major powers. By illuminating the complex connections between the shattered France of the Bourbon restoration; an England threatened by radical politician inspired by the French Revolution; Napoleon in exile at St. Helena; the United States, where home-grown adventurers and French émigrés alike saw opportunity; and the collapsing Spanish colonial empire, where revolutionaries were allying themselves with the veterans of Napoleon's Grande Armée, Ocampo brings together two bodies of scholarship: Napoleonic history and Latin American independence. He does so by tracing the steps of four of the most fascinating characters of the era: two Britons disaffected with their own government--Lord Thomas Cochrane and Sir Robert Wilson--and two former generals of Napolean's army named Charles Lallemand and Michel Brayer. The Emperor's Last Campaign is a fascinating story, well told, and peopled with all sorts of improbable characters and schemes that perhaps just missed coming to full fruition but that in the process contributed to one of the most important events of the nineteenth century: the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power.
Download or read book The Last of the Black Emperors written by Jonetta Rose Barras and published by Bancroft Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a gripping, informative, and balanced assessment of Mayor Marion Barry, this book reveals how a crafty, first-generation civil rights era politician pulled off his amazing return to power. 24 photos.
Download or read book Eighteen Original Journals of the Eighteen Campaigns of the Emperor Napoleon written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emperor written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “elegant and engaging” biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: “a masterpiece” (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times). The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But capturing the nature of this elusive man has proven notoriously difficult—especially given his relentless travel, tight control of his own image, and the complexity of governing the world’s first transatlantic empire. Geoffrey Parker, one of the world’s leading historians of early modern Europe, has examined the surviving written sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as well as visual and material evidence. In Emperor, he explores the crucial decisions that created and preserved this vast empire, analyzes Charles’s achievements within the context of both personal and structural factors, and scrutinizes the intimate details of the ruler’s life for clues to his character and inclinations. The result is a unique biography that interrogates every dimension of Charles’s reign and views the world through the emperor’s own eyes.
Download or read book John II Komnenos Emperor of Byzantium written by Alessandra Bucossi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia Minor as well as the construction of the most important monastic complex of twelfth-century Constantinople. What else do we know about John’s rule and its period? This volume opens up new perspectives on John’s reign and clearly demonstrates that many innovations generally attributed to the genius of Manuel Komnenos had already been fostered during the reign of the second great Komnenos. Leading experts on twelfth-century Byzantium (Jeffreys, Magdalino, Ousterhout) are joined by representatives of a new generation of Byzantinists to produce a timely and invaluable study of the unjustly neglected figure of John Komnenos.
Download or read book The History of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to the Death of Marcus Antoninus written by Robert Lynam and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genesios on the Reigns of the Emperors written by Kaldellis Anthony and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Anthony Kaldellis -- Introduction /Anthony Kaldellis -- Genesios, On the Reigns of the Emperors (813-886) /Anthony Kaldellis -- Translator's Note: Theophobos and Manuel /Anthony Kaldellis -- Patriarchs of Constantinople, 784-893 /Anthony Kaldellis -- Maps /Anthony Kaldellis -- Glossary of Terms, Places, and Peoples /Anthony Kaldellis -- Bibliography /Anthony Kaldellis -- Index /Anthony Kaldellis.
Download or read book In Praise of Later Roman Emperors written by C. E. V. Nixon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R. A. B. Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. The very difficult Latin of these insightful speeches is rendered into graceful English, yet remains faithful to the original.
Download or read book Five Roman Emperors written by Bernard William Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The history of the Roman emperors from Augustus to the death of Marcus Antoninus ed by J T White written by Robert Lynam and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte Emperor of the French written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives of the Roman Emperors and Their Associates written by J. Eugene Reed and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte Emperor of the French written by Walter Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed biography of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) containing a review of the French Revolution, first published in 1827.
Download or read book Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France written by John Gibson Lockhart and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calendar of the Stuart Papers Belonging to His Majesty the King written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
