The Emperor And The Peasant

Author : Kenneth Janda
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669570
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor and the Peasant written by Kenneth Janda and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat. The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. Mozolak's story depicts the life of a peasant in an army staffed by aristocrats, and also illustrates the pattern of East European immigration to America.

Author : Kenneth Janda
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631182
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor and the Peasant written by Kenneth Janda and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat. The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. Mozolak's story depicts the life of a peasant in an army staffed by aristocrats, and also illustrates the pattern of East European immigration to America.

Author : 熊存瑞（Victor Cunrui Xiong）
Publisher : Airiti Press
ISBN 13 : 9866286711
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Peasant to Emperor：The Life of Liu Bang written by 熊存瑞（Victor Cunrui Xiong） and published by Airiti Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Liu Bang, the eponymous protagonist of this novel, set out to conquer all under Heaven, he was already 47 years old. A medium-built, foul-mouthed peasant with a reputation as a ne’er-do-well, a womanizer, and a drunkard, who, though literate, never cared much about literature, he seemed to have a slim chance at success at a time when all the heroes in the realm contended for power and dominance. Against all odds, he defeated his rivals to found the Han dynasty, and quelled the numerous rebellions that challenged his rule. 本書以史實與故事兼容之手法，描述歷史人物劉邦以平民出身，卻能扭轉情勢爭奪天下的經過。

Author : Harcourt School Publishers Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780153195006
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor and the Peasant Boy written by Harcourt School Publishers Staff and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter J Seybolt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429975279
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Throwing The Emperor From His Horse written by Peter J Seybolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book sketches an intimate portrait of the life of Wang Fucheng, an illiterate peasant who served for thirty years as Communist party secretary of an impoverished village on the north China plain. Based on conversations over a seven-year period (1987 - 1994) between Wang Fucheng and Peter Seybolt, the book unfolds as a continuous first

Author : Jean-Marie Deguignet
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583226162
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Breton Peasant written by Jean-Marie Deguignet and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth century was a place seemingly frozen in the Middle Ages, backwards by most French standards; formal education among rural society was either unavailable or dismissed as unnecessary, while the church and local myth defined most people's reasoning and motivation. Jean-Marie Déguignet is unique not only as a literate Breton peasant, but in his skepticism for the church, his interest in science, astronomy and languages, and for his keen—often caustic—observations of the world and people around him. Born into rural poverty in 1834, Déguignet escapes Brittany by joining the French Army in 1854, and over the next fourteen years he fights in the Crimean war, attends Napoleon III’s coronation ceremonies, supports Italy’s liberation struggle, and defends the hapless French puppet emperor Maximilian in Mexico. He teaches himself Latin, French, Italian and Spanish and reads extensively on history, philosophy, politics, and literature. He returns home to live as a farmer and tobacco-seller, eventually falling back into dire poverty. Throughout the tale, Deguignet’s freethinking, almost anarchic views put him ahead of his time and often (sadly, for him) out of step with his contemporaries. Déguignet’s voluminous journals (nearly 4,000 pages in total) were discovered in a farmhouse in Brittany a century after they were written. This narrative was drawn from them and became a surprise bestseller when published in France in 1998.

Author : Baby
Publisher : Baby Professor (Education Kids)
ISBN 13 : 9781541916296
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justinian I written by Baby and published by Baby Professor (Education Kids). This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's introduction to the life and times of Emperor Justinian I, who sought to revive the Byzantine Empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the historical Roman Empire.

Author : Amy Kind
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509500227
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persons and Personal Identity written by Amy Kind and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities are we, and what makes each of us the same person today that we were yesterday? Could we survive having all of our memories erased and replaced with false ones? What about if our bodies were destroyed and our brains were transplanted into android bodies, or if instead our minds were simply uploaded to computers? In this engaging and accessible introduction to these important philosophical questions, Amy Kind brings together three different areas of research: the nature of personhood, theories of personal identity over time, and the constitution of self-identity. Surveying the key contemporary theories in the philosophical literature, Kind analyzes and assesses their strengths and weaknesses. As she shows, our intuitions on these issues often pull us in different directions, making it difficult to develop an adequate general theory. Throughout her discussion, Kind seamlessly interweaves a vast array of up-to-date examples drawn from both real life and popular fiction, all of which greatly help to elucidate this central topic in metaphysics. A perfect text for readers coming to these issues for the first time, Persons and Personal Identity engages with some of the deepest and most important questions about human nature and our place in the world, making it a vital resource for students and researchers alike.

Author : Lu Yao
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
ISBN 13 : 9781542044622
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life written by Lu Yao and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic and ambitious young man from a small country village, life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city.

Author : Bob Scribner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000424227
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Peasant War of 1525 – New Viewpoints written by Bob Scribner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1979, presents a series of important investigations into the German Peasant War of 1525 – the last great peasant revolt and the first modern revolution. Previously under-studied by English-speaking historians, these essays provide a valuable analysis of the aims and extent of the Peasant War, and are representative of the various elements in the historiographical debate.