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Free Download Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford: The Case of Hanwell Castle by Stephen Wass
English | December 2, 2022 | ISBN: 1914427165 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 9.7 MB
Based on a decade of archaeological investigation and historical research, this book tells the story of the Copes of Hanwell Castle in north Oxfordshire and the creation of a garden with links to the development of scientific thinking in Oxford in the late seventeenth century. New research using Robert Description’s Natural History of Oxfordshire as a starting point has uncovered details of a remarkable family and their rise and tragic downfall, their social circle, that included some great names in the development of early scientific thinking, and their garden that in effect became a place dedicated to the wonders of technology.

Free Download International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), "Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Volume 2, Political Regulation, Governance, and Societal Transformations: Repor"
English | ISBN: 1108423132 | 2018 | 248 pages | PDF | 29 MB
This is the second of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language by scholars across the social sciences and humanities, these volumes assess the achievements of world societies in past centuries, the current trends, the dangers that we are now facing, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century. It covers the main socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social progress, global as well as regional issues, and the diversity of challenges and their interplay around the world. This particular volume covers topics such as democracy and the rule of law, violence and wars, international organizations and global governance, and media and communications.

Free Download Tyler Chamberlain, "Reading George Grant in the 21st Century "
English | ISBN: 303144888X | 2023 | 310 pages | PDF | 6 MB
George Grant (1918-1988) was one of Canada’s foremost public philosophers. Though his thought arose out of reflection on the history of political philosophy, pressing political concerns were never far from view. He was particularly adept at locating the causes of political developments in philosophical movements that were centuries in the making. This book reassesses his ideas in light of philosophical and political developments of recent decades, including the resurgence of nationalism, criticisms of globalization and technocracy, and the ideological realignments having a particularly noticeable effect on right-wing politics. The contemporary reader of Grant is thus able to reflect on his broader criticisms of modernity from within a slightly different historical articulation of modernity. Though George Grant died in 1988, the philosophical themes in his work remain relevant into the 21st

Free Download Dirk Schumann, "Raising Citizens in the ‘Century of the Child’: The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1845456963, 1782381090 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 0.9 mb
The 20th century, declared at its start to be the "Century of the Child" by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However, the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert influence as well as the rights and roles of mothers and fathers remained subjects of heated debates throughout the century. While there is a growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood, research in the field remains focused on national narratives. This volume compares the impact of state intervention and expert influence on theories and practices of raising children in the U.S. and German Central Europe. In particular, the contributors focus on institutions such as kindergartens and schools where the private and the public spheres intersected, on notions of "race" and "ethnicity," "normality" and "deviance," and on the impact of wars and changes in political regimes.

Free Download Peter J Kitson, Indira Ghose, Susan Schoenbauer Thurin, "Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1138755699 | EPUB | pages: 490 | 3.1 mb
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

Free Download Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers by Marie Carter
English | March 5, 2024 | ISBN: 1531506240 | 208 pages | EPUB | 4 Mb
The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them

Free Download Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers by Marie Carter
English | March 5, 2024 | ISBN: 1531506240 | 208 pages | EPUB | 4 Mb
The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them

Free Download Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations by Emily Conroy-Krutz
English | March 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1501773984 | 354 pages | EPUB | 1.82 Mb
Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Missionaries served as consuls, translators, and occasional trouble-makers who forced the State Department to take actions it otherwise would have avoided. Yet as decades passed, more Americans began to question the propriety of missionaries’ power. Were missionaries serving the interests of American diplomacy? Or were they creating unnecessary problems?

Free Download Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir by Kishore Mahbubani
English | August 13, 2024 | ISBN: 1541703049 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1.96 MB
In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse.

Free Download Ira M. Lapidus, "Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History"
English | ISBN: 0521732980 | 2012 | 788 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
Ira Lapidus’ global history of Islamic societies, first published in 1988, has become a classic in the field. For over two decades, it has enlightened students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world’s great civilizations. This book is based on parts one and two of Lapidus’ monumental A History of Islamic Societies, revised and updated, describes the transformations of Islamic societies from their beginning in the seventh century, through their diffusion across the globe, into the challenges of the nineteenth century. The story focuses on the organization of families and tribes, religious groups and states, depicts them in their varied and changing contexts, and shows how they were transformed by their interactions with other religious and political communities into a varied, global and interconnected family of societies. The book concludes with the European commercial and imperial interventions that initiated a new set of transformations in the Islamic world, and the onset of the modern era. Organized in narrative sections for the history of each major region, with innovative, analytic summary introductions and conclusions, this book is a unique endeavor. Its breadth, clarity, style, and thoughtful exposition will ensure its place in the classroom and beyond as a guide for the educated reader.