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Free Download The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism by Mark Canuel
English | October 3, 2022 | ISBN: 0192895303 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.9 MB
What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about "progress" and "perfection"? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the novelists, poets, and political theorists examined in this book reimagined politically progressive thinking in multiple genres. While embracing a commitment to optimistic improvement-increasing freedom, equality, and protection from injury-they also cultivated increasingly visible and volatile energies of religious and political dissent. Earlier narratives of progress tended not only to edit and fictionalize history but also to agglomerate different modes of knowledge and practice in their quest to describe and prescribe uniform cultural improvement. But romantic writers seize on internal division and take it less as an occasion for anxiety, exclusion, or erasure, and more as an impetus to rethink the groundwork of progress itself.

Free Download Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus by Tabitha Morgan
English | August 15, 2010 | ISBN: 1848853297, 178453305X | True EPUB | 320 pages | 3.6 MB
On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders – the Black Watch – waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonize the same stretch of sand, the latest visitors to an island which has long held a special place in the English imagination – and a controversial role in British imperial ambitions.

Free Download Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution: British Views on Spain, 1814-1823 (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) edited by Bernard Beatty, Alicia Laspra Rodríguez
English | March 29, 2019 | ISBN: 3034322496 | True EPUB/PDF | 352 pages | 15.4/24.2 MB
When the Peninsular War ended in 1814, the prolonged struggle had all but exhausted both British government finances and the British public’s enthusiasm for war. The authoritarian rule of Ferdinand VII aroused long-standing British suspicions of Spanish ways, which emerged in British literary works that depicted a retrograde, fanatical Spain. The tumultuous years following Ferdinand’s reign also led to divisions among the European powers, some favouring the restoration of Ferdinand, with the British government and liberal forces vehemently opposed.

Free Download RSPB Handbook of British Birds, 5th Edition by Peter Holden, Richard Gregory
English | March 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1472980263 | True PDF | 320 pages | 70.2 MB
The bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds is the most comprehensive reference for birdwatchers of all levels of interest and experience. Now in its fifth edition, it remains the most accessible field guide to more than 300 bird species likely to be encountered in Britain and Ireland.

Free Download British Humour and the Second World War: ‘Keep Smiling Through’ (New Directions in Social and Cultural History) edited by Juliette Pattinson, Linsey Robb
English | June 29, 2023 | ISBN: 1350201669 | True EPUB | 230 pages | 3.3 MB
This book skilfully combines cutting-edge historical research by leading and emerging researchers in the field to investigate the utilization of British humour during the Second World War as well as its legacy in British popular culture.

Free Download A Frequency Dictionary of British English
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032272694 | 353 Pages | PDF (True) | 102 MB
A Frequency Dictionary of British English provides information about the frequency and distribution of words in British English.

Free Download The Secret US Plan to Overthrow the British Empire: War Plan Red by Graham M Simons
English | May 5, 2020 | ISBN: 1526712024 | 256 pages | MOBI | 46 Mb
After the Great War, there was much debate in the USA whether the country should isolate itself from ‘old world’ conflicts or follow an imperialist path and become the world’s only superpower. If the USA was to become a superpower, then conflict with Great Britain might result. Consequently, the US drew up War Plan Red. This was a scheme for the USA to invade Canada and the Caribbean which would draw the Royal Navy into North American waters where it would be destroyed. Without the Royal Navy, the rest of the British Empire would be vulnerable to American attacks.

Free Download The Artist in Time: A Generation of Great British Creatives by Chris Fite-Wassilak, Ollie Harrop
English | January 19, 2021 | ISBN: 1789940354 | 144 pages | MOBI | 76 Mb
An inspiring and intimate look at the work of a generation of British artists across all disciplines.

Free Download Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth by Professor Selina Todd
English | February 11, 2021 | ISBN: 1784740810 | 464 pages | PDF | 57 Mb
Politicians claim social mobility is real – a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.

Free Download Brilliant Black British History by Kingsley Nebechi
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1526635712 | MOBI | 54 Mb
An eye-opening story of Britain, focusing on a part of our past that has mostly been left out of the history books: the brilliant Black history of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.