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 Free Download Douglas Scott Brookes, "Death and Life in the Ottoman Palace: Revelations of the Sultan Abdülhamid I Tomb " English | ISBN: 1399510428 | 2023 | 330 pages | PDF | 38 MB This book reveals multiple aspects of life in the Ottoman palace, in both its public space (the chancery) and private space (the royal household and the harem). It does so by exploring the Sultan Abdülhamid I Tomb in Istanbul, investigating the paths that open to us through the graves of the royalty in the mausoleum and those of the courtiers, eunuchs, concubines and female harem managers in the garden graveyard around it. The treasure of information at this graveyard allows us to piece together a wide spectrum of details that illuminate the court funerary culture of the era, from architecture and calligraphy to funerals and epitaphs to turbans and fezzes and poetry, as we come to an understanding of the role of royal cemeteries in strengthening the bonds between the reigning House and the populace and enhancing the legitimacy of the dynasty's rule.  Free Download Barbara Sjoholm, "The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi" English | ISBN: 1517915147 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 1460 KB  Free Download The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies) by Deniz Türker English | May 23, 2023 | ISBN: 0271093919 | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 82.6/83.6 MB This book tells the story of Yıldız Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul's urban memory. At its peak, however, Yıldız was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire's vast bureaucratic apparatus.  Free Download Mark M. Mazower, "No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations" English | 2009 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 0691135215, 0691157952 | PDF | 0,8 mb A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United Nations  Free Download The Palace by Gareth Russell English | 2023 | ISBN: 1982169060 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 51.17 MB  Free Download Robin Paige, "Death at Blenheim Palace" English | 2005 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0425200353, 0425202372 | EPUB | 0,4 mb Invited to Blenheim Palace, home of the Duke and Duchess of Marborough, to work on a book about a centuries-old scandal involving the murder of a young mistress of King Henry II, husband and wife scholars Charles and Kate Sheridan find themselve investigating the all-too-current kidnapping of a young maid and the mysterious disappearance of the duke and his mistress.
![The Palace From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court [Audiobook]](https://i122.fastpic.org/big/2023/0916/d9/3c26cbe7a8b996590f41aebf9b2fb8d9.jpeg) Free Download The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0C4VRBTF5 | 2023 | 14 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 386 MB Author: Gareth Russell Narrator: John Telford The popular and "scrupulous historian" (Daily Mail, London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred years of British history-from King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II-as seen through the doorways of the exquisite Hampton Court Palace. Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James's version of the Bible, the staging of many of Shakespeare's plays, and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation ball. Accessible, engaging, and unputdownable, The Palace takes us into every room in the castle, revealing the ups and downs of royal history and illustrating what was at play politically, socially, and economically at the time. An engaging and charming history book, The Palace makes you feel as if you were in the room as history was made.
 Free Download Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France By Louise Tythacott 2017 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 1138080551 | PDF | 6 MB In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China--the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan--and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays--especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Muse Chinois at the Chteau of Fontainebleau--tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.  Free Download László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, "Spadework for a Palace" English | 2022 | ISBN: 0811228401 | 64 pages | EPUB | 0.48 MB Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle "Entering the Madness of Others" and offers an epigraph: "Reality is no obstacle." Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a "gray little librarian" with fallen arches whose name-mr herman melvill-is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville ("I too resided on East 26th Street . . . I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office"), which itself is just one aspect of his also being "constantly conscious of his connectedness" to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the "drunkard Lowry" and his Lunar Caustic, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville, but also tracing the paths to "a Serene Paradise of Knowledge." Driven to save that Palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but "people must be told the truth: there is no dualism in existence." And his dream will be "realized, for I am not giving up: I am merely a day-laborer, a spade-worker on this dream, a herman melvill, a librarian from the lending desk, currently an inmate at Bellevue, but at the same time-may I say this?-actually a Keeper of the Palace.  Free Download The Palace of Darius at Susa: The Great Royal Residence of Achaemenid Persia By Jean Perrot; John Curtis 2013 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 1848856210 | PDF | 140 MB The palace complex of the Persian King Darius I, the Great (522-486 BCE), provides unique evidence of the sophistication of Achaemenid architecture and construction. This palace, built 2500 years ago in western Iran, lay at the centre of the Persian Empire that stretched from the Nile and the Aegean to the Indus Valley. First rediscovered in 1851, the palace of Darius was partly excavated over the next century. But it was only field research between 1969 and 1979 by the noted French archaeologist Jean Perrot which revealed the site s full dimension and complexity. Its bull-headed capitals, enamel friezes of richly-clad archers holding spears, figures of noble lions and winged monsters, introduced a new iconography into the ancient Persian world. The discovery and excavation of the palace, which this book records, thus casts a new light on the beginnings of the Achaemenid period. Edited by the distinguished scholar of ancient Persia, John Curtis, the lavishly illustrated volume is a work of seminal importance for the understanding of ancient Persia, likely to be radically altered by Perrot s research and findings. |
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