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Free Download Mark Whalan, "The Cambridge History of American Modernism "
English | ISBN: 1108477674 | 2023 | 700 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media that shaped the period’s literary culture, such as jazz, cinema, the skyscraper, and radio. This volume charts how recent methodologies such as ecocriticism, geomodernism, and print culture studies have refashioned understandings of the field, and attends to the contestations and inequities of race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that shaped the period and its cultural production. It also explores the geographies and communities wherein US modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.

Free Download The Best American Poetry 2024 edited by Mary Jo Salter, David Lehman
English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 1982186801, 1982186798 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1.6 MB
Renowned poet Mary Jo Salter, whose command of verse forms and high intelligence is universally acknowledged, selects the poems for the 2024 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).

Free Download The American Civil War and the Wars of the Industrial Revolution By Brian Holden Reid, John Keegan
1999 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0304352306 | EPUB | 2 MB
The Civil War was the bloodiest in America’s history, comprising 149 engagements of importance and 2200 skirmishes. The author narrates the history of the war and also describes how such factors as generalship, staff work, organization, intelligence and logistics affect the shape and decisions of the battlefield. He looks at the strengths, and weaknesses of the opposing sides – the North’s industrial strength and the South’s material shortages, for example – and the effect of new weapons on tactics. He explores the crucial role of the industrial revolution on the course of 19th-century warfare, first in the Crimean War, then in Prussia’s wars with Austria and France, and most dramatically in the American Civil War.

Free Download Saving Sam: The True Story of an American’s Disappearance in Syria and His Family’s Extraordinary Fight to Bring Him Home by Sam Goodwin
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1546007741 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 25.95 MB
A gripping testament of resilience, family, and faith, this is the incredible and true story of an American traveler who was captured and wrongfully imprisoned in Syria while on a journey to experience every country in the world.

Free Download Annelise Orleck, "Rethinking American Women’s Activism Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0367758709 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Rethinking American Women’s Activism traces intersecting streams of feminist activism from the nineteenth century to the present.

Free Download Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism by Maurice Isserman
English | June 4, 2024 | ISBN: 1541620038 | 384 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
"The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written" (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win),revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a brutal, totalitarian state, the USSR

Free Download Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978"
English | ISBN: 0300267851 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights

Free Download Beverly Tomek, "New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization "
English | ISBN: 0813054249 | 2017 | 368 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume closely examines the movement to resettle black Americans in Africa, an effort led by the American Colonization Society during the nineteenth century and a heavily debated part of American history. Some believe it was inspired by antislavery principles, but others think it was a proslavery reaction against the presence of free Black people in society.

Free Download Mita Banerjee, "Medical Humanities in American Studies: Life Writing, Narrative Medicine, and the Power of Autobiography "
English | ISBN: 3825369064 | 2018 | 390 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book asks a seemingly simple question: How has the creation of new fields such as medical humanities and narrative medicine changed the humanities themselves, and American Studies more specifically? Turning to the genre of life writing, this study sets out to chart spaces in which a dialogue between the humanities and the life sciences can emerge. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, life writing narratives such as Tito Mukhopadhyay’s ‘Beyond the Silence’, Temple Grandin’s ‘Thinking in Pictures’, or Michael J. Fox’s ‘Lucky Man’ show that self-description has often become inseparable from biomedical terminology. Linking life writing narratives to discussions in bioethics and exploring the links between autobiography and brain research, this book sets out to wonder whether the divide between the "two cultures" of the humanities and the life sciences may not itself have become obsolete.

Free Download Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris by Ginette Vincendreau
English | January 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0851709508, 0851709494 | True EPUB | 285 pages | 11.7 MB
One of the most brilliant filmmakers in post-war France and world cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville now enjoys renewed popularity. His "Bob le flambeur" (with its street-wise Montmartre and Pigalle settings, its cool jazz score and its good-humoured tale of gangster clans) not only inspired the New Wave but has attained unassailable cult status. Other iconic gangster films such as "Le Doulos," "Le Samourai" and "Le Cercle rouge" are now hailed as masterpieces by latter-day legends John Woo and Quentin Tarantino. Meanwhile, with "Le Silence de la mer" and "L’Armee des ombres," Melville also contributed two of the greatest films about the Resistance during World War II.