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Sidney and Beatrice Webb An Academic Biography


Free Download David Reisman, "Sidney and Beatrice Webb: An Academic Biography "
English | ISBN: 3031100077 | 2022 | 298 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines the economic, social and political thought of two highly influential cross-disciplinary contributors to the debate in the United Kingdom about welfare economics, social welfare, nationalisation and public policy. Active between the 1880s and the 1930s, their many books, papers, lectures and speeches shaped the discourse on heterodox economics, social democracy and the managed economy. The Webbs sat on Royal Commissions, permeated local and central government, and were instrumental in the creation of the London School of Economics.

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Beatrice’s Last Smile A New History of the Middle Ages [Audiobook]


Free Download Beatrice’s Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD2PP1J3 | 2023 | 21 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 604 MB
Author: Mark Gregory Pegg
Narrator: Richard Burnip

A new history of the Middle Ages, revealing how Christianity and Islam evolved out of a shared cultural and religious ferment, and how this shaped the development of the West. The medieval world, stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, from the Asian Steppes to the Straits of Gibraltar and North Africa, from the Nile to the Volga, lasted from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries. This geographical and temporal breadth (including the early decades of European conquest and settlement in the Americas), is much larger and longer than that imagined by medieval historians only half a century ago. New and exciting scholarship from the last three decades continues to shape this expansive vision, powerfully enhancing our insight into what it means to talk about medieval Europe specifically and western culture in general. In Beatrice’s Last Smile, Mark Pegg offers a synthesis of the most innovative scholarship on the Middle Ages of the last thirty years.

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