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Free Download Peggy Keeran, "Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century: Strategies and Sources (Volume 12) "
English | ISBN: 0810887959 | 2013 | 328 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature. Patronage, either by a benefactor or through subscription, lingered even as the publishing and bookselling industries developed. The practice of reviewing books became well established during the second half of the century, with the first periodical founded in 1749. For the literary scholar, these gradual changes mean that different search strategies are required to conduct research into primary and secondary source material across the era.

Free Download Margaret Slocomb, "An Economic History of Cambodia in the Twentieth Century"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 9971694999 | PDF | pages: 368 | 30.4 mb
The course of economic change in twentieth century Cambodia was marked by a series of deliberate "conscious human efforts" that were typically extreme and ideologically driven. While colonization, protracted war and violent revolution are commonly blamed for Cambodia’s failure to modernize its economy in the twentieth century, Margaret Slocomb’s Economic History of Cambodia in the Twentieth Century questions whether these circumstances changed the underlying structures and relations of production. She also asks whether economic factors in some way instigated war and revolution. In exploring these issues, the book tracks the erratic path taken by Cambodia’s political elite and earlier colonial rulers to develop a national economy. The book closes around 2005, by which time Cambodia had be reintegrated into both the regional and into the global economy as a fully-fledged member of the World Trade Organization.

Free Download Cristina Alvarez Millan, Claudia Heide, "Pascual de Gayangos: A Nineteenth-Century Spanish Arabist"
English | 2008 | pages: 265 | ISBN: 0748635475 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Pascual de Gayangos (1809-97) celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. He gave Islamic Spain its own voice, for the first time representing Spain’s ‘other’ from ‘within’ not from without. This collection, the first major study of Gayangos, celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth. Covering a wide range of subjects, it reflects the multiple fields in which Gayangos was involved: scholarship on the culture of Islamic and Christian Spain; history, literature, art; conservation and preservation of national heritage; formation of archives and collections; education; tourism; diplomacy and politics. Amalgamating and understanding Gayangos’s multiple identities, it reinstates his importance for cultural life in nineteenth-century Spain, Britain and North America.It is also argued that Gayangos’s scholarly achievements and his influence have a political dimension. His work must be seen in relation to the quest for a national identity which marked the nineteenth century: what was the significance of Spain’s Islamic past, and the Imperial Golden Age to the culture of modern Spain? The chapters, informed by post-colonial theory, reception theory and theories of national identity, uncover some of the complexities of the process that shaped Spain’s national identity. In the course of this book, Gayangos is shown to be a figure with many facets and several intellectual lives: Arabist, historian, liberal, researcher, editor, numismatist, traveller, translator, diplomat, perhaps a spy, a generous collaborator and one of Spain’s greatest bibliophiles.

Free Download On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century by Tony Blair
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0593799798 | 368 pages | PDF | 2.08 Mb
The leadership manual Tony Blair wishes he had when he became prime minister, with personal insights and global examples that show aspiring leaders how to go from talking about change to making change.

Free Download D. Coleman, "Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England: Indelible Characters"
English | 2007 | pages: 189 | ISBN: 0230535836, 1349358487 | PDF | 0,7 mb
This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays.

Free Download Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the Threshold
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009490451 | 313 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Focusing on moments of exchange between acoustic theories and evolving practices in fiction, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, animal studies, and religion, this study ranges from Eliot’s Middlemarch to Du Maurier’s Trilby to demonstrate how the boundaries of the human were challenged by new sound technologies in the Victorian period.

Free Download Nelson González Ortega, "Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe: Performing Borders, Identities and Texts"
English | ISBN: 1800733801 | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 25 MB
The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading international scholars of migration from perspectives as varied as literature, linguistics, area and cultural studies, media and communication, visual arts, and film studies. Together, they offer innovative interpretations of migrants and contemporary migration to Europe, enriching today’s political and media landscape, and engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility and rights of both extra-European migrants and European citizens.

Free Download Deterrence in the 21st Century: Statecraft in the Information Age (Beyond Boundaries) by Eric Ouellet, Madeleine D’Agata, Keith Stewart
English | January 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1773854801 | 400 pages | MOBI | 1.04 Mb
The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data, confusing or obscuring public opinion to forward specific goals, and beyond. Deterrence in the 21st Century asks how, and if it is indeed possible, to deter an enemy in the realm of information warfare.

Free Download Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe
by Anthony Steinhoff and Jeffrey Zalar
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3110573679 | 501 Pages | True ePUB | 17.8 MB

Free Download Wendelin Guentner, "Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France: Vanishing Acts"
English | ISBN: 161149446X | 2013 | 382 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as women’s limited access to professional art education, but also to bring to light the considerable artistic accomplishments of women occluded by historians for over a century. A similar effort at historical revision has been under way for French women writers. Works of fiction that enjoyed many editions in the nineteenth-century receded from our field of vision for almost a century before being rediscovered and reissued during the last decades of the twentieth century. Such efforts have resulted in scholarship that has helped revise the history of both artistic and literary expression in nineteenth-century France.