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Free Download A Cultural History of the British Empire by John MacKenzie
English | December 6, 2022 | ISBN: 0300260784 | 432 pages | MOBI | 22 Mb
A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world

Free Download Forgotten War: The British Empire and Commonwealth’s Epic Struggle Against Imperial Japan, 1941-1945 by Brian E. Walter
English | December 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 1636243576 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 34.03 MB
A new assessment of the British and Commonwealth contribution to the defeat of Japan in the Pacific.

Free Download Robert P. Watson, Christopher Douyard (Narrator), "When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation’s Rise from the Ashes"
English | ASIN: B0CP2PHVY5 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:12:00 | 288 MB
Perhaps no other single day in United States history was as threatening to the survival of the nation as August 24, 1814, when British forces captured Washington, DC. This unique moment might have significantly altered the nation’s path forward, but the event and the reasons why it happened are little remembered by most Americans.
When Washington Burned narrates and examines the British campaign and American missteps that led to the fall of Washington during the War of 1812. Watson analyzes the actions of key figures on both sides, such as President James Madison and General William Winder on the United States side and Rear Admiral George Cockburn and Major General Robert Ross on the British side. He pinpoints the reasons the campaign was such a disaster for the United States but also tells the redeeming stories of the courageous young clerks and the bold first lady, Dolley Madison, who risked their lives to save priceless artifacts and documents from the flames, including the Constitution. The British invasion was repulsed over the coming weeks and months, and the United States ultimately emerged stronger.

Free Download Jean-Michel Ganteau, "The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative "
English | ISBN: 103242320X | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an "ecology of attention" (Citton) based on poetic options whose pragmatic effect is to develop an ethics of the particularist type. To do this, I draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: psychology, but also more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, and analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the ethics of care and vulnerability. By using a selection of fictional and non-fictional narratives, I address such issues as social invisibilities, climate change, AI and cognitive disability and end up drafting a poetics of attention.

Free Download Emily Horton, "The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1350268216 | 2024 | 336 pages | EPUB, PDF | 493 KB + 2 MB
This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of attention and reading.

Free Download Stefan Rabitsch, "Star Trek and the British Age of Sail: The Maritime Influence Throughout the Series and Films"
English | ISBN: 1476664633 | 2018 | 279 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Clear all moorings, one-half impulse power and set course for a mare incognitum… A popular culture artifact of the New Frontier/Space Race era, Star Trek is often mistakenly viewed as a Space Western. However, the Western format is not what governs the worldbuilding of Star Trek, which was, after all, also pitched as "Hornblower in space." Star Trek is modeled on the world of the "British Golden Age of Sail" as it is commonly found in the genre of sea fiction. This book re-historicizes and remaps the origins of the franchise and subsequently the entirety of its fictional world-the

Free Download Duncan Petrie, "Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered"
English | ISBN: 1474443893 | 2021 | 272 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous decade. Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes.

Free Download Chloe Ashbridge, "Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution "
English | ISBN: 1032436603 | 2023 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 883 KB + 10 MB
This book shows how twenty-first-century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation, signalling the growing awareness of England as a distinct and variegated political formation. In 2016, the Brexit vote intensified ongoing constitutional tensions throughout the UK, which have been developing since the devolution of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in 1997. At the same time, British devolution developed a distinctively cultural registration as a surrogate for parliamentary representation and an attempt to disrupt the status of London as Britain’s cultural epicentre.

Free Download Ron Johnston, "Representative democracy?: Geography and the British electoral system"
English | ISBN: 1526151812 | 2021 | 224 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom are elected to represent geographic constituencies; but how are these defined and what are the consequences for democracy?

Free Download Pocket Rough Guide British Breaks Liverpool (Pocket Rough Guide British Breaks), 2nd Edition by Rough Guides
English | July 18th, 2023 | ISBN: 1839058722 | 136 pages | True EPUB | 25.30 MB
This expert-curated guide book to Liverpool shines a spotlight on a more unusual British city break, with a wealth of practical information on what to see and do. Each area or neighbourhood featured in this Liverpool travel guide is explored in-depth with detailed coverage of the points of interest, shops, restaurants, cafes and bars on offer. Excursions to surrounding areas give plenty of options for those looking to enjoy a longer stay. This Liverpool guide book has been fully updated post-COVID-19.