Kings In Exile

Author : Charles George Douglas Roberts
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781473349216

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"Kings In Exile" is a 1910 novel by Charles G. D. Roberts. Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 - November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and writer commonly hailed as the "Father of Canadian Poetry". He was amongst the first Canadian authors to gain international fame for his work, and was Canada's leading man of letters when he died. Other notable works by this author include: "In the Deep of the Snow" (1907), "The Book of the Native" (1896), and "Hoof and Claw" (1914). Contents include: "Last Bull", "The King of the Flaming Hoops", "The Monarch of Park Barren", "The Gray Master", "The Sun-Gazer", "The Lord of the Glass House", "Back to the Water World", "Lone Wolf", "The Bear's Face", and "The Duel on the Trail". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Charles G. D. Sir Roberts
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547375326

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Kings in Exile by Charles G. D. Sir Roberts Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Kings in Exile" by Charles G. D. Sir Roberts. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Sudha Shah
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789350295984

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The King In Exile by Sudha Shah Pdf

'An absorbing read. Exhaustively researched and gracefully written, The King in Exile tells a story of compelling human interest, filled with drama, pathos and tragedy... [It] heralds the arrival of a writer of non-fiction who is both uncommonly talented and exceptionally diligent...One of the great merits of [the book] is that it is completely free of jargon and theorizing. It is in essence a family story, centred on five women whose lives were waylaid by history' - Amitav Ghosh in his blog 'The captivity of Burma's last king and the fall of the Konbaung dynasty: a compelling new account' In 1879, as the king of Burma lay dying, one of his queens schemed for his forty-first son, Thibaw, to supersede his half brothers to the throne. For seven years, King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat ruled from the resplendent, intrigue-infused Golden Palace in Mandalay, where they were treated as demi-gods. After a war against Britain in 1885, their kingdom was lost, and the family exiled to the secluded town of Ratnagiri in British-occupied India. Here they lived, closely guarded, for over thirty-one years. The king's four daughters received almost no education, and their social interaction was restricted mainly to their staff. As the princesses grew, so did their hopes and frustrations. Two of them fell in love with 'highly inappropriate' men. In 1916, the heartbroken king died. Queen Supayalat and her daughters were permitted to return to Rangoon in 1919. In Burma, the old queen regained some of her feisty spirit as visitors came by daily to pay their respects. All the princesses, however, had to make numerous adjustments in a world they had no knowledge of. The impact of the deposition and exile echoed forever in each of their lives, as it did in the lives of their children. Written after years of meticulous research, and richly supplemented with photographs and illustrations, The King in Exile is an engrossing human-interest story of this forgotten but fascinating family.

Author : Ronit Ricci
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824853754

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Exile in Colonial Asia by Ronit Ricci Pdf

Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” royals banished as political exiles; “convicts,” the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and “commemoration,” referring to the myriad ways in which the experience and its aftermath were remembered by those exiled, relatives left behind, colonial officials, and subsequent generations of descendants, devotees, historians, and politicians. Intended for a broad readership interested in the colonial period in Asia (South and Southeast Asia in particular), the volume encompasses a range of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. In addition to presenting fascinating, little-known, and varied case studies of exile in colonial Asia and Australia, the chapters collectively offer a sweeping, contextualized, comparative approach that links the narratives of diverse peoples and locales. Rather than confining research to the European colonial archives, whenever possible the authors put special emphasis on the use of indigenous primary sources hitherto little explored. Exile in Colonial Asia invites imaginative methodological innovation in exploring multiple archives and expands our theoretical frontiers in thinking about the interconnected histories of penal deportation, labor migration, political exile, colonial expansion, and individual destinies.

Author : John Callow
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752479880

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James II by John Callow Pdf

JAMES II was Britain’s last Catholic king. The spectacular collapse of his regime in 1688 and the seizure of his throne by his nephew William of Orange are the best-known events of his reign. But what of his life after this? What became of him during his final exile? John Callow’s groundbreaking study focuses on this hitherto neglected period of his life: the twelve years he spent attempting to recover his crown through war, diplomacy, assassination and subterfuge. This is the story of the genesis of Jacobitism; of the devotion of the fallen king’s followers, who shed their blood for him at the battle of the Boyne and the massacre at Glencoe, gave up estates and riches to follow him to France, and immortalised his name in artworks, print, and song. Yet, this first ‘King Over the Water’ was far more than a figurehead. A grim, inflexible warlord and a maladroit politician, he was also a man of undeniable principle, which he pursued regardless of the cost to either himself or his subjects. He was an author of considerable talent, and a monarch capable of successive reinventions. Denied his earthly kingdoms, he finally settled upon attaining a heavenly crown and was venerated by the Jacobites as a saint. This powerful, evocative and original book will appeal to anyone interested in Stuart history, politics, culture and military studies.

Author : Andrew Swanston
Publisher : Random House
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446487280

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The King's Exile by Andrew Swanston Pdf

Spring, 1648. When Thomas Hill, a bookseller living in rural Hampshire, publishes a political pamphlet he has little idea of the trouble that will follow. He is quickly arrested, forced on a boat to Barbados and condemned to life as a slave to two of the island’s most notoriously violent brothers. In England war has erupted again, with London under threat of attack. When news of the king’s execution reaches the island, political stability is threatened and a fleet commanded by Sir George Ayscue arrives to take control of the island for Cromwell. The threat of violence increases. Thomas finds himself witness to abuse, poison, rape and savage brutality. When a coded message from Ayscue to a sympathiser on the island is intercepted, Thomas is asked to decipher it. A disastrous battle seems inevitable. But nothing turns out as planned. And as the death toll mounts, the escape Thomas has been relying on seems ever more unlikely...

Author : Alphonse Daudet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510024071474

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Kings in Exile by Alphonse Daudet Pdf

Author : Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Animals
ISBN : NYPL:33433048261733

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Kings in Exile by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts Pdf

Author : Alphonse Daudet
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1314956752

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Kings in Exile... by Alphonse Daudet Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Charles G. D. Sir Roberts
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066223533

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Kings in Exile by Charles G. D. Sir Roberts Pdf

"Kings in Exile" by Charles G. D. Sir Roberts. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Nathan Lovell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695338

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The Book of Kings and Exilic Identity by Nathan Lovell Pdf

Nathan Lovell proposes that 1 and 2 Kings might be read as a work of written history, produced with the explicit purpose of shaping the communal identity of its first readers in the Babylonian exile. By drawing on sociological approaches to the role historiography plays in the construction of political identity, Lovell argues the book of Kings is intended to reconstruct a sense of Israelite identity in the context of these losses, and that the book of Kings moves beyond providing a reason for the exile in Israel's history, and beyond even connecting its exilic audience to that history. The book recalls the past in order to demonstrate what it means to be Israel in the (exilic) present, and to encourage hope for the Israelite nation in the future. After developing a reading strategy for 1–2 Kings that treats the book as a coherent narrative, Lovell examines the construction of Israelite identity within Kings under the headings of covenant, nationhood, land, and rule. In each case he suggests that the narrative of the book creates room for a genuine but temporary expression of Israelite identity in exile: genuine to show that it remains possible for Israel to be Yahweh's people during the exile, but temporary to encourage hope for a future restoration.

Author : Alphonse Daudet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : OCLC:9607179

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Kings in exile by Alphonse Daudet Pdf

Author : Charles George Douglas Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1375485121

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Kings in Exile by Charles George Douglas Roberts Pdf

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9780198827498

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The Pope who Would be King by David I. Kertzer Pdf

Days after the assassination of his prime minister in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The wave of revolution that had swept through Europe now seemed poised to put an end to the popes' thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not indeed to the papacy itself. Disguising himself as a simple parish priest, Pius escaped through a back door. Climbing inside the Bavarian ambassador's carriage, he embarked on a journey into a fateful exile.Only two years earlier Pius's election had triggered a wave of optimism across Italy. After the repressive reign of the dour Pope Gregory XVI, Italians saw the youthful, benevolent new pope as the man who would at last bring the Papal States into modern times and help create a new, unified Italian nation. But Pius found himself caught between a desire to please his subjects and a fear--stoked by the cardinals--that heeding the people's pleas would destroy the church. The resulting drama--with a colorful cast of characters, from Louis Napoleon and his rabble-rousing cousin Charles Bonaparte to Garibaldi, Tocqueville, and Metternich--was rife with treachery, tragedy, and international power politics.David Kertzer is one of the world's foremost experts on the history of Italy and the Vatican, and has a rare ability to bring history vividly to life. With a combination of gripping, cinematic storytelling, and keen historical analysis rooted in an unprecedented richness of archival sources, The Pope Who Would Be King sheds fascinating new light on the end of rule by divine right in the west and the emergence of modern Europe.

Author : Alphonse Daudet
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0266379338

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Kings in Exile (Classic Reprint) by Alphonse Daudet Pdf

Excerpt from Kings in Exile But, while relaxing the tension of her nerves and drinking in the fertile scene, the exile all at once shud ders. Yonder, at her left, near the entrance to the gar den, stands a spectral monument of burned walls, with reddened columns and a crumbling roof, and whose win dows are holes against a blue space, the open front having a background of ruins and at the end, looking upon the Seine, a pavilion almost entire, gilded by the flame which has blackened the iron of its balconies. It was all that was left of the palace of the Tuileries. 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.