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Free Download Marie-Sol de La Tour d’Auvergne, "A French Aristocrat in the American West: The Shattered Dreams of De Lassus De Luzières"
English | 2010 | pages: 258 | ISBN: 0826218962 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
In 1790, Pierre-Charles de Lassus de Luzières gathered his wife and children and fled Revolutionary France. His trek to America was prompted by his "purchase" of two thousand acres situated on the bank of the Ohio River from the Scioto Land Company-the institution that infamously swindled French buyers and sold them worthless titles to property. When de Luzières arrived and realized he had been defrauded, he chose, in a momentous decision, not to return home to France. Instead, he committed to a life in North America and began planning a move to the Mississippi River valley.

Free Download Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation by Richard Norton Smith, Nelson Runger, Recorded Books
English | 2012 | ISBN: B0099UZRXW | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 18 hours and 59 minutes | 257 Mb
With the thoroughness of a newspaper of the era, Smith retells the old familiar stories and legends surrounding our nation’s first president during the years preceding and during his terms in office. Patriarch brings George Washington to life as few historical accounts have before – showing our country’s most celebrated father occupied with the business of the day, and carrying the weight of a nation.

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Free Download American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship by Niambi Michele Carter, Janina Edwards, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B086R81KF8 | MP3@64 kbps | 8h 10m | 110 Mb
At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its immigration policy. While the broadening of the United States’s borders to non-European immigrants fits with a black political agenda of social justice, recent waves of immigration have presented a dilemma for blacks, prompting ambivalent or even negative attitudes toward migrants. What has an expanded immigration regime meant for how blacks express national attachment?
In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic. As Carter contends, blacks use the issue of immigration as a way to understand the nature and meaning of their American citizenship – specifically the way that white supremacy structures and constrains not just their place in the American political landscape, but their political opinions as well.

Free Download American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHT64MCG | 2023 | 11 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Wes Davis
Narrator: Mitch Crawford

Free Download American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 Rifle (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVKXBFLW | 2023 | 14 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 431 MB
Author: Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson
Narrator: Roger Wayne

Free Download The Petrol Navy
by Steve Dunn;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399062859 | 322 pages | True PDF EPUB | 121.34 MB
On the outbreak of war in 1914, the Royal Navy found it required more small craft than it possessed to carry out minesweeping, anti-submarine patrols and coastal defense. This led to the formation of an auxiliary force of civilian vessels, including motor pleasure boats and yachts, relatively new types of craft powered by the internal combustion engine. The inclusion of these vessels came about when a group of motor boat owners suggested to the Admiralty that their vessels could play an important role in the defense of Britain. The result was the formation of the Royal Naval Motor Boat Reserve (RNMBR) in 1912.

Free Download The American Revolution
by Marston, Daniel;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1472857429 | 145 pages | True PDF EPUB | 40.72 MB
Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition , with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War.

Free Download The Rich Get Richer: American Wage, Wealth and Income Inequality (195 Pages)
by Thomas Hyclak
English | 2023 | ISBN: 981127729X | 196 pages | True PDF | 11.39 MB
Inequality of wages among workers and inequality of income and wealth among families and households has been rising steadily for the past half-century in the United States and other developed economies. However, the United States stands out for having the most unequal wage and income distributions to begin with and for experiencing the fastest rise in inequality over the following decades. While this has been a long-developing situation and the subject of academic interest for some time, it is only in the last decade or so that inequality has attracted considerable public attention and become a political issue. Inequality has also become a subject of renewed interest among economists, with a growing number of scholars engaged in the development of new databases and the analysis of the causes and effects of increased inequality.

Free Download Native American History – North America
by Johansen, Bruce E.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1423249410 | 6 pages | True PDF | 11.89 MB
Essential history of the indigenous people of North America in relation to America. This is not an indigenous peoples history related to their individual tribes. A difficult history to tell for many reasons, at least 800 distinct Native peoples inhabited most parts of North America speaking at least several hundred distinct languages which does not include many hundreds of smaller tribes. From language to culture covering the history is generally more simplified than the vastly more complex reality. Internationally known author and beloved University of Nebraska professor of Communication and Native American Studies Bruce E. Johansen, PhD who has written over 40 books on the subject uses his vast knowledge to carefully select facts to cover the essential history. Excellent resource for school and anyone wanting to know more about a history not commonly known but that so many are truly interested in learning.

Free Download Accounting for Crises : A Marxist History of American Accounting Theory, c.1929 to 2007 (480 Pages)
by Rob Bryer
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811267065 | 481 pages | True PDF | 6.73 MB
Historians have not convincingly explained modern capitalism’s two major economic crises, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009. Accounting for Crises offers a new explanation, why both began and were more severe in the USA ("America"), based on an accounting interpretation of Marx’s theory of crises. It explains their origins in capitalists’ control of accumulation, which reveals important overlooked roles for Irving Fisher’s accounting theory. This theory, by allowing discretion in accounts, in the context of falling rates of profit, encouraged "swindling", overstating reported profits, and understating their risk, which facilitated and aggravated both crises. Framed by Fisher’s theory, during the 1920s American accounting theorists justified discretion, which Creating the "Big Mess" (the companion volume) concluded it management used to conservatively smooth earnings. Accounting for Crises shows that Fisher’s theory , also underlays the popular new theory of investment that justified valuing shares using reported earnings, which encouraged their manipulation and legitimized "speculation". This, it argues, underlays America’s exceptional late-1920s stock market boom, the 1929 Great Crash, and the depth and length of its Great Depression. Prominently associated with the boom, Fisher became unpopular after the crash, his name disappearing from public debate. Nevertheless, the book concludes, his theory hindered economic recovery, weakened 1930s reforms, undermined accounting regulation from the late-1930s, and following his rehabilitation from the late-1950s, underlies the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s conceptual framework, which by allowing off-balance-sheet accounting for securitization-SPEs, fostered the 2007 "credit crunch" that triggered the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC).