The First Emperor
Author: Sima Qian
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-08-27
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0199574391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint. Originally published: 2007. Reissued 2009.
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The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China
Author: Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2022-08-09
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0295750235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ying Zheng, founder of the Qin empire, is recognized as a pivotal figure in world history, alongside other notable conquerors such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Julius Caesar. His accomplishments include conquest of the warring states of ancient China, creation of an imperial system that endured for two millennia, and unification of Chinese culture through the promotion of a single writing system. Only one biased historical account, written a century after his death in 210 BCE, narrates his biography. Recently, however, archaeologists have revealed the lavish pits associated with his tomb and documents that demonstrate how his dynasty functioned. Debates about the First Emperor have raged since shortly after his demise, making him an ideological slate upon which politicians, revolutionaries, poets, painters, archaeologists, and movie directors have written their own biases, fears, and fantasies. This book is neither a standard biography nor a dynastic history. Rather, it looks historically at interpretations of the First Emperor in history, literature, archaeology, and popular culture as a way to understand the interpreters as much as the subject of their interpretation.
Qin Shi Huangdi
Author: Peggy Pancella
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2003-08
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781403437044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents an overview of Qin Shi Huangdi's life, as well as his influence on history and the world.
The First Emperor of China
Author: R. W. L. Guisso
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780773723702
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Author: Jane Portal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780674026971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The rise of Qin and the military conquest of the warring states -- The First Emperor and the Qin empire -- Imperial tours and mountain inscriptions -- The First Emperor's tomb: the afterlife universe -- A two-thousand-year-old underground empire.
The First Emperor of China
Author: Jonathan Clements
Publisher:
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781909771116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors. He faked a foreign threat to justify an invasion. He ruled a nation under 24-hour surveillance. He ordered his interrogators to torture suspects. He boiled his critics alive. He buried dissenting scholars. He declared war on death itself."--Back of book.
The First Emperor of China
Author: Frances Wood
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Was The First Emperor of China a Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant?
China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors
Author: Frances Wood
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2008-06-10
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1429933887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China's First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, he created imperial China. He stressed the rule of law but suppressed all opposition, burning books and burying scholars alive. His military achievements are reflected in the astonishing terracotta soldiers—a veritable buried army—that surround his tomb, and his Great Wall still fascinates the world. Despite his achievements, however, the First Emperor has been vilified since his death. China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors describes his life and times and reflects the historical arguments over the real founder of China and one of the most important men in Chinese history.
Augustus
Author: Anthony Everitt
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2007-10-09
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0812970586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Augustus’s rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The world that made Augustus–and that he himself later remade–was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history–Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra–whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. At a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt brings to life the world of a giant, rendered faithfully and sympathetically in human scale. A study of power and political genius, Augustus is a vivid, compelling biography of one of the most important rulers in history.
Augustus
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0300210078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The acclaimed historian and author of Caesar presents “a first-rate popular biography” of Rome’s first emperor, written “with a storyteller’s brio” (Washington Post). The story of Augustus’ life is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord whose only claim to power was as the grand-nephew and heir of the murdered Julius Caesar. Mark Antony dubbed him “a boy who owes everything to a name,” but he soon outmaneuvered a host of more experienced politicians to become the last man standing in 30 BC. Over the next half century, Augustus created a new system of government—the Principate or rule of an emperor—which brought peace and stability to the vast Roman Empire. In this highly anticipated biography, Goldsworthy puts his deep knowledge of ancient sources to full use, recounting the events of Augustus’ long life in greater detail than ever before. Goldsworthy pins down the man behind the myths: a consummate manipulator, propagandist, and showman, both generous and ruthless. Under Augustus’ rule the empire prospered, yet his success was constantly under threat and his life was intensely unpredictable.
