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Download or read book Imperial Surprises written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Imperial Surprises
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Imperial Surprises Pop-Up
Author : Margaret Kelly
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810933309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Imperial Surprises Pop-Up by : Margaret Kelly
Download or read book Imperial Surprises Pop-Up written by Margaret Kelly and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book's cleverly engineered paper replicas of the elegant Faberge eggs exactly simulate the lavishly designed gifts that the Russian nobility gave to one another at Easter. Accompanying the exquisite reproductions is an informative text by the curator of the Forbes Faberge collection. 50 illustrations in full-color, 6 pop-ups.
United Empire
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
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Download or read book United Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Kalpa Imperial
Author : Angélica Gorodischer
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1618730193
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Kalpa Imperial by : Angélica Gorodischer
Download or read book Kalpa Imperial written by Angélica Gorodischer and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula K. Le Guin chose to translate this novel which was on the New York Times Summer Reading list and winner of the Prix Imaginales, Más Allá, Poblet and Sigfrido Radaelli awards. This is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. But this is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Gorodischer and translator Ursula K. Le Guin are a well-matched, sly and delightful team of magician-storytellers. Rarely have author and translator been such an effortless pairing. Kalpa Imperial is a powerful introduction to the writing of Angélica Gorodischer, a novel which will enthrall readers already familiar with the worlds of Le Guin.
Imperial Illusions
Author : Kristina Kleutghen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805528
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Imperial Illusions written by Kristina Kleutghen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China�s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of �scenic illusion paintings� (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong�s world. For more information: http://arthistorypi.org/books/imperial-illusions
Imperial Secrets
Author : Patrick A. Kelley
Publisher : Defense Department
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Imperial Secrets written by Patrick A. Kelley and published by Defense Department. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Kelley explores the limits of institutional knowledge regarding information gathering and knowledge in imperial political structures. The author explores how an empire's culture can shape the information it receives and its ability to process information. The book ranges across time to examine the achievements and failures of empires to use information as a tool of governance and domination.
United Empire
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
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Download or read book United Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
The Alter-Imperial Paradigm
Author : Shane J. Wood
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004308393
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
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Download or read book The Alter-Imperial Paradigm written by Shane J. Wood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many assume the book of Revelation is merely an “anti-imperial” attack on the Roman Empire. Yet, Shane J. Wood argues this conclusion over-exaggerates Rome’s significance and, thus, misses Revelation’s true target—the construction of the alter-empire through the destruction of the preeminent adversary: Satan. Applying insights from Postcolonial criticism and 'Examinations of Dominance,' this monograph challenges trajectories of New Testament Empire Studies by developing an Alter-Imperial paradigm that appreciates the complexities between the sovereign(s) and subject(s) of a society—beyond simply rebellion or acquiescence. Shane J. Wood analyses Roman propaganda, Jewish interaction with the Flavians, and Domitianic persecution to interpret Satan's release (Rev 20:1-10) as the climax of God's triumphal procession. Thus, Rome provides the imagery; Eden provides the target.
The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language
Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
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Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Imperial Matter
Author : Lori Khatchadourian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520290526
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Imperial Matter written by Lori Khatchadourian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What is the role of the material world in shaping the tensions and paradoxes of imperial sovereignty? Scholars have long shed light on the complex processes of conquest, extraction, and colonialism under imperial rule. But imperialism has usually been cast as an exclusively human drama, one in which the world of matter does not play an active role. Lori Khatchadourian argues instead that things—from everyday objects to monumental buildings—profoundly shape social and political life under empire. Out of the archaeology of ancient Persia and the South Caucasus, Imperial Matter advances powerful new analytical approaches to the study of imperialism writ large and should be read by scholars working on empire across the humanities and social sciences.
