The Peasant

Author : Ashton Dorow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578771284

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The Peasant Queen by Ashton Dorow Pdf

A king haunted by memories of his past...A young woman fighting againsther future...Torn from her home and all that is familiar, Arabella of Caelrith finds herself as the unwilling bride of King Rowan of Acuniel--the man whose vengeful war stole her family. Bitter and confused, Arabella struggles to find her place in this new life. That is, until someone tries to kill the king.Despite repeated warnings to stay out of the matter, Arabella investigates the attempt on Rowan's life, and his parents' long ago murder, unconcerned with the potential cost of her interference. But when tragedy strikes, the seriousness of the situation becomes all too clear. Is the price of knowing the truth higher thanshe is willing to pay?When the fate of the kingdom and all that she holds dear is at stake, will Arabella have the courage to stand up against the evil endeavoring to destroy them all? Did God really abandon her when He left her to this fate? Or was she put in the king's palace... for such a time as this?

Author : Jacques Maritain
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725230132

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The Peasant of the Garonne by Jacques Maritain Pdf

At eighty-five, Jacques Maritain, the most distinguished Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century, has written what he offers as his last book, and it turns out to be a shocker. The "peasant," as Maritain calls himself in the title, is a man who calls a spade a spade; and a storm of controversy descended immediately on the book's publication in France, as both Right and Left reeled from the force of Maritain's criticism. The Peasant of the Garonne is a sharp attack on the "new philosophy," hoping to cool off the fever for change that Maritain believes is imperiling the church's traditional spirituality and even the substance of doctrine. There is sardonic humor in his treatment of Teilhardians, phenomenologists, existentialists, new-style biblical critics, and clerical Freudians, but Maritain is deeply serious in warning that their capitulation to fashioniable trends represents a kind of "kneeling before the world."

Author : Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Country life
ISBN : CORNELL:31924014517803

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The Peasants ...: Autumn by Władysław Stanisław Reymont Pdf

A chronicle of peasant life during the four seasons of a year.

Author : Melanie Dickerson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780785228349

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The Peasant's Dream by Melanie Dickerson Pdf

The duke's daughter, Adela, masquerades as a peasant for a small taste of freedom . . . until she falls in love with a commoner who has no idea who she really is. In this reverse reimagining of the Cinderella story, secrets and dangerous enemies threaten a fairy-tale romance. Adela, daughter of the powerful Duke of Hagenheim, is rarely allowed outside the castle walls. Longing for freedom, one day she sneaks away to the market disguised as a peasant. There, she meets a handsome young woodcarver named Frederick. Frederick is a poor farmer and the sole provider for his family, and he often has to defend his mother from his father’s drunken rages. He dreams of making a living carving beautiful images into wood, and he is thrilled when the Bishop of Hagenheim commissions him to carve new doors for the cathedral. As Frederick works on the project, he and Adela meet almost daily, and it doesn’t take long for them to fall in love. Even as their relationship grows, her true identity remains hidden from him, and he believes she is a commoner like him. When disaster separates them, Adela and Frederick find themselves caught in the midst of deceptions far more dangerous than innocent disguises. As the powerful lords set against them proceed with their villainous plans, secrets emerge that put Frederick and Adela’s future at risk. Full-length, clean fairy-tale reimagining The final Hagenheim story; can be read as a stand-alone Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also by Melanie Dickerson: The Golden Braid, The Silent Songbird, and The Orphan’s Wish

Author : Li Cunxin
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781742537214

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The Peasant Prince by Li Cunxin Pdf

'This is your one chance. You have your secret dreams. Follow them! Make them come true . . . ' In a poor village in northern China, a small boy is about to be taken away from everything he's ever known. He is so afraid, but his mother urges him to follow his dreams. For soon he will become a dancer, one of the finest dancers in the world . . . So begins The Peasant Prince, the true story of Li Cunxin's extraordinary life. Based upon his internationally best-selling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer, this remarkable picture book captures the essence of one of the most inspiring stories to come from China in many years. With hauntingly beautiful illustrations by award-winning artist Anne Spudvilas, Li's journey of courage and determination is simply told, and as powerful as any fairytale.

Author : Pietro Pinti
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611459807

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Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant by Pietro Pinti Pdf

Pietro Pinti, born as he says 'in the Middle Ages,' worked the land with hoe and plow from his earliest youth. Growing up under Mussolini's Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, he and his family lived under conditions of extreme poverty, as sharecroppers to generally unscrupulous landowners. But during World War II, when millions in towns and cities suffered untold hardships, the hardy Tuscan peasants were well equipped to face the rigors of the era: war or no war, work on the land went on, and Pietro describes month by month a typical year in their lives: how they made wine and olive oil, planted and harvested the wheat by hand, made baskets and ladders from chestnut wood-skills now lost. With sly wit and salty wisdom, Pietro, a natural storyteller who played the trumpet, wrote poetry, and grew famous for his tales of peasants, knights, and brigands, recreates in colorful detail a world and peasant culture that is fast disappearing. Jenny Bawtree, an Englishwoman long settled in Tuscany, was so fascinated by Pietro's stories that she helped shape them into this autobiography, full of color and humor, hardship and nostalgia.

Author : Xiaorong Han
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791483923

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Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949 by Xiaorong Han Pdf

Shows how Chinese intellectuals with varying politics envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals’ writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant—a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants. Xiaorong Han is Assistant Professor of History at Butler University.

Author : Leigh Binford,Lesley Gill,Steve Striffler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781805393481

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Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America by Leigh Binford,Lesley Gill,Steve Striffler Pdf

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. The seven case studies are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors assess the continuing relevance of Wolf’s political economy. The book concludes with Gavin Smith’s reflection on reading Eric Wolf as a public intellectual today.

Author : Edward Dicey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020017195

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The Peasant State by Edward Dicey Pdf

Author : Ralph L. Beals
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520363137

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The Peasant Marketing System of Oaxaca, Mexico by Ralph L. Beals Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Author : Cheah Boon Kheng
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971696757

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The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929 by Cheah Boon Kheng Pdf

In the early twentieth century, social banditry was endemic in the countryside near the border between the northern Malaysian state of Kedah and Siam, and some outlaws became local heroes. Cheah Boon Kheng's account of peasant banditry and the society where it flourished draws on colonial records, literary sources and interviews to examine the circumstances that led the Governor, Sir Laurence Guillemard, to call the border area "one of the most lawless and insecure districts" in British Malaya during the 1920s. Considering banditry from the perspective of the peasant community, Cheah concludes that it grew out of lax government, weak policing, the geography of the border region and underdevelopment, and suggests that bandit heroes might be seen as symbols of rural protest. His discussion of the details of rural life in the early twentieth century and the conditions that underlay rural crime provide a unique social history of rural society in Malaya. This innovative volume broke new ground in Malaysian studies when it first appeared in 1988. This second edition is intended for the work to reach a new audience.

Author : Henry Shanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : English poetry
ISBN : PRNC:32101048376840

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The Peasant Poets of Scotland and Musings Under Beeches by Henry Shanks Pdf

Author : Robert MACBURNIE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026954918

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The Peasant's Posy; Consisting of Miscellaneous Poems, Sonnets and Songs by Robert MACBURNIE Pdf

Author : William Holloway (poet.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590496481

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The chimney-sweeper's complaint [in verse] by the author of The peasant's fate by William Holloway (poet.) Pdf

Author : Alexander F. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107435292

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The Peasant in Postsocialist China by Alexander F. Day Pdf

The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as China becomes an economic superpower, the issue continues to loom large. Can the peasantry be integrated into a new Chinese capitalism, or will it form an excluded and marginalized class? Alexander F. Day's highly original appraisal explores the role of the peasantry throughout Chinese history and its importance within the development of post-socialist-era politics. Examining the various ways in which the peasant is historicized, Day shows how different perceptions of the rural lie at the heart of the divergence of contemporary political stances and of new forms of social and political activism in China. Indispensable reading for all those wishing to understand Chinese history and politics, The Peasant in Postsocialist China is a new point of departure in the debate as to the nature of tomorrow's China.