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A Great Undertaking
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Author : Jeff Hornibrook
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2015-04-27
A Great Undertaking written by Jeff Hornibrook and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-27 with History categories.
Jeff Hornibrook provides a unique, microcosmic look at the process of industrialization in one Chinese community at the turn of the twentieth century. Industrialization came late to China, but was ultimately embraced and hastened to aid the state's strategic and military interests. In Pingxiang County in the highlands of Jiangxi Province, coalmining was seasonal work; peasants rented mines from lineage leaders to work after the harvest. These traditions changed in 1896 when the court decided that the county's mines were essential for industrialization. Foreign engineers and Chinese officials arrived to establish the new social and economic order required for mechanized mining, one that would change things for people from all levels of society. The outsiders constructed a Westernized factory town that sat uneasily within the existing community. Mistreatment of the local population, including the forced purchase of gentry-held properties and the integration of peasants into factory-style labor schemes, sparked a series of rebellions that wounded the empire and tore at the fabric of the community. Using stories found in memoirs of elite Chinese and foreign engineers, correspondence between gentry and powerful officials, travelogues of American missionaries and engineers, as well as other sources, Hornibrook offers a fascinating history of the social and political effects of industrialization in Pingxiang County.
The Complete Story Of A Great Undertaking
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Author : Emek Hepher Hebrew characters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
The Complete Story Of A Great Undertaking written by Emek Hepher Hebrew characters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with categories.
A Great Undertaking
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Author : American Bible Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
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A Great Undertaking
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Author : Jeff Hornibrook
language : en
Publisher: Suny Press
Release Date : 2016-07-02
A Great Undertaking written by Jeff Hornibrook and has been published by Suny Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-02 with Business & Economics categories.
Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Undertaking
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Author : Audrey Magee
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2014-02-06
The Undertaking written by Audrey Magee and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Fiction categories.
The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love. When the newlywed strangers finally meet, however, passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves facing the terrible consequences of being ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt...
The Undertaking
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Author : Thomas Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-30
The Undertaking written by Thomas Lynch and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ears tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. In these twelve essays is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between 'the living and the living who have dies' with the same outrage and amazement, straining for the same glimpse we all get of what mortality means to a vital species. So here is homage to parents who have died and to children who shouldn't have. Here are golfers tripping over grave-markers, gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides. These are essays of rare elegance and grace, full of fierce compassion and rich in humour and humanity - lessons taught to the living by the dead.
Our Great Undertaking A Story With Plates
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Author : Evelyn Everett-Green
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
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A Perilous Undertaking
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Author : Deanna Raybourn
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-01-10
A Perilous Undertaking written by Deanna Raybourn and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-10 with Fiction categories.
The “wickedly clever and devilishly amusing”* Veronica Speedwell returns for a rousing adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries. London, 1887. At the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task—saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Ramsforth, accused of the brutal murder of his mistress, Artemisia, will face the hangman’s noose in a week’s time if the real killer is not found. But Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems, and unmasking her true identity is only the first of many secrets Veronica must uncover. Together with her natural-historian colleague, Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderer. From a Bohemian artists’ colony to a royal palace to a subterranean grotto with a decadent history, the investigation proves to be a very perilous undertaking indeed... *SusanElia MacNeal
Cobbett S Parliamentary Debates
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
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Channel Tunnel
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Channel Tunnel written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Channel Tunnel (Coquelles, France, and Folkestone, England) categories.