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January 16, 2025

Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction

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Free Download Hsu-Ming Teo, "Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1032801778 | 2024 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 844 KB + 19 MB
Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involves encounters with "exotic" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past itself is exoticised and treated as "other" to the present to serve the purposes of romanticisation: a narrative strategy by which all manner of things – settings, characters, costumes, customs, consumables – are made to perform a luxuriant otherness that amplifies the experience of love. This volume questions the reparative function of Anglophone romantic historical fiction to ask: can Descriptions of travel and discourses of tourism empower women while narrating stories of healing for the wounds of the past? This is the first volume to consider how romanticised and exoticised women’s historical fiction not only serves the purposes of armchair travel but may also replicate colonial discourse, unintentionally positioning readers as neocolonial, neo-Orientalist cultural voyeurs as well as voyagers.

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January 16, 2025

China in the Twenty-First Century Challenges and Opportunities

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Free Download S. Hua, S. Guo, "China in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities"
English | 2007 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 1403979758, 1349538345 | PDF | 1,1 mb
In this edited volume, leading scholars from US and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the 21st century, each emphasizing particular dimensions of politics, economics, political culture, and foreign policy. Issues examined include: social harmony and statecraft , media and political culture, and legality in foreign trade.

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January 14, 2025

Policing Twentieth Century Ireland A History of An Garda Síochána

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Free Download Vicky Conway, "Policing Twentieth Century Ireland: A History of An Garda Síochána"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 041569194X, 1138899984 | PDF | pages: 288 | 18.2 mb
The twentieth century was a time of rapid social change in Ireland: from colonial rule to independence, civil war and later the Troubles; from poverty to globalisation and the Celtic Tiger; and from the rise to the fall of the Catholic Church. Policing in Ireland has been shaped by all of these changes. This book critically evaluates the creation of the new police force, an Garda Síochána, in the 1920s and analyses how this institution was influenced by and responded to these substantial changes.

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January 14, 2025

October 1917 Revolution A Century Later

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Free Download Samir Amin, "October 1917 Revolution: A Century Later"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1988832055 | EPUB | pages: 124 | 0.2 mb
Great revolutions make history. Conservative resistance and counter-revolutions only delay their progress. The French revolution invented modern politics and democracy, the Russian revolution paved the way for the socialist transition, while the Chinese revolution connected the emancipation of those peoples oppressed by imperialism with the path to socialism. These revolutions are great precisely because they are bearers of undertakings that are far ahead of the immediate demands of their time. beacons that illuminate the still unfinished struggles of the peoples for the realization of these goals. It is impossible to understand the contemporary world by ignoring these great revolutions. To commemorate these revolutions, says Samir Amin, one needs both to assess their ambitions (the utopia of today will be the reality of tomorrow), and to understand the reasons for their temporary setbacks. Conservative and reactionary minds refuse to do so-they wish us to believe that great revolutions have been nothing more than unfortunate accidents, that the peoples who have made them were carried away by their deceitful enthusiasm, diversions from the normal current of history. This collection of essays helps to situate the lessons of the October 1917 Russian Revolution from a perspective of 100 years.

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January 12, 2025

International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond

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Free Download International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Antony Best
English | May 29, 2008 | ISBN: 0415438969 | 640 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover events in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from the last century and beyond. Among the areas this book covers are:

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