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Free Download Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War by Michael De Groot
English | March 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1501774115 | 324 pages | PDF | 4.83 Mb
In Disruption, Michael De Groot argues that the global economic upheaval of the 1970s was decisive in ending the Cold War. Both the West and the Soviet bloc struggled with the slowdown of economic growth; chaos in the international monetary system; inflation; shocks in the commodities markets; and the emergence of offshore financial markets. The superpowers had previously disseminated resources to their allies to enhance their own national security, but the disappearance of postwar conditions during the 1970s forced Washington and Moscow to choose between promoting their own economic interests and supporting their partners in Europe and Asia.

Free Download Hallvard Notaker, Giles Scott-Smith, David J. Snyder, "Reasserting America in the 1970s: U.S. public diplomacy and the rebuilding of America’s image abroad"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 178499331X, 1784993301 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 0.8 mb
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a profound era of transition in the international order. The American defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton Woods exchange system and a string of domestic setbacks including Watergate, Three-Mile Island and reversals during the Carter years all contributed to a grand reappraisal of the power and prestige of the United States in the world. In addition, the rise of new global competitors such as Germany and Japan, the pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union and the emergence of new private sources of global power contributed to uncertainty.

Free Download Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Audiobook)
English | December 18, 2018 | ASIN: B07L1D89HG | M4B@128 kbps | 17h 48m | 993 MB
Author: Jefferson Cowie | Narrator: Tom Perkins
A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin’ Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie’s remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s.
In this edgy and incisive book – part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and television lore – Cowie, with "an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America’s fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.

Free Download Alwyn W. Turner, "Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s"
English | 2013 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1845134257, 1845133277 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
The 1970s. They were the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record low, yet industrial strife was at a record high. These were the glory years of Doctor Who and glam rock, but the darkest days of the Northern Ireland conflict. Beset by strikes, inflation, power cuts and the rise of the far right, the cosy Britain of the post-war consensus was unravelling – in spectacularly lurid style. Fusing high politics and low culture, Crisis? What Crisis? presents a world in which Enoch Powell, Ted Heath and Tony Benn jostle for space with David Bowie, Hilda Ogden and Margo Leadbetter, and reveals why a country exhausted by decline eventually turned to Margaret Thatcher for salvation.

Free Download Lisa Featherstone, "Sexual Violence in Australia, 1970s-1980s: Rape and Child Sexual Abuse "
English | ISBN: 3030733092 | 2021 | 314 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores sexual violence and crime in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense social and legal change. Driven by the sexual revolutions, second wave feminism, and ideas of the rights of the child, there was a new public interest in the sexual assault of women and children. Sexual abuse was studied, surveyed and discussed more than ever before in Australian society. Yet, despite this, there remained substantial inaction, by government, from community and on the part of individuals. This book examines several difficult questions of our recent history: why did Australia not act more firmly to eradicate rape and child sexual abuse? What prevented our culture from looking seriously at trauma? How did we fail to protect victim-survivors? Rich in social and legal history, this study takes readers into the world of victims of sexual crime, and into the wider community that had to deal with sexual violence. At the core of this book is the question that resonates deeply right now: why does sexual violence appear seemingly insurmountable, despite significant change?

Free Download Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War
by Michael De Groot
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1501774115 | 324 Pages | True ePUB | 2.6 MB

Free Download British Ford Cars of the 1960s and 1970s by James Taylor
English | August 1, 2022 | ISBN: 0719840716 | 176 pages | PDF | 32 Mb
The 1960s and 1970s were a pivotal period for Ford in Europe and, seen from a British perspective, were a time of experimentation and exploration. At the start of the 1960s Ford had models aimed at just two market sectors – small family saloons and large family saloons – but by the end of the 1970s they were represented in no fewer than five areas of the market with small hatchbacks, small saloons, medium saloons, sporty coupés and large saloons. And they had overtaken all rivals in Britain to be the best-selling manufacturer with (since 1967) the Cortina as the best-selling car. With over 270 photographs, this book details: the Ford company structure, businesses and key locations throughout the two decades; the factors influencing model design, engineering, styling and interior; specification and performance tables; market reception and sales; special editions, models produced overseas and conversions and finally, helpful buying advice for each model.