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Free Download Rena Jackson, "The Imperial World-System and Cultures of Dissent in Thomas Hardy’s Fiction "
English | ISBN: 303169452X | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB | 736 KB
This is the first book-length study of imperial crossings in Thomas Hardy’s novels and short stories. Combining the strengths of world-literary and world-systems analyses with a cultural materialist approach, the study offers unparalleled coverage of global links in Hardy’s fiction, engaging, in addition, with a range of dissenting responses – at both formal and thematic registers – to the British world-system’s exploitative structures. Hardy’s prose outputs reveal that the empire, contrary to popular critical assumptions in postcolonial studies, did not harmonise the classes, genders or regions into a shared national imperial identity, culture or destiny. A major component of the study additionally includes comparative readings of the ‘modern’ world-system and imperial sociality in writings by Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rudyard Kipling, David Livingstone, and in Chartist poetry. The book will be an invaluable resource to teachers, students and enthusiasts working in the field of world literature, and in Victorian, postcolonial and settler colonial studies.

Free Download The Imperial World-System and Cultures of Dissent in Thomas Hardy’s Fiction
by Rena Jackson
English | 2025 | ISBN: 303169452X | 235 Pages | True PDF | 5.47 MB

Free Download Jules Boykoff, "The Suppression Of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415652774, 0415978106 | EPUB | pages: 388 | 0.6 mb
Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement.

Free Download Wendy Doniger, "Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics "
English | ISBN: 030021619X | 2018 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 1256 KB
An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance

Free Download Matthew Philpotts, "The Margins of Dictatorship: Assent and Dissent in the Work of Günter Eich and Bertolt Brecht"
English | 2003 | pages: 381 | ISBN: 303910022X, 0820462918 | PDF | 1,3 mb
In this study the author elaborates a comparative framework for analysing literary texts from the Third Reich and the GDR in terms of the extent of assent and/or dissent expressed through them towards the National Socialist and SED regimes. The author maps out areas of similarity and difference in the workings of cultural policy in the two dictatorships. In the second part of the study, Günter Eich’s work for the Nazi radio system and Bertolt Brecht’s cultural activities in the GDR act as case studies to illuminate the patterns of interdependent assent and dissent generated under the conditions of dictatorship.

Free Download Stephen Millar, "Sounding Dissent: Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism "
English | ISBN: 0472038877 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, marked the beginning of a new era of peace and stability in Northern Ireland. As the public overwhelmingly rejected a return to the violence of the Troubles, loyalist and republican groups sought other outlets to continue their struggle. Music, which has long been used to celebrate cultural identity in the North of Ireland, became a key means of facilitating the continuation of pre-Agreement identity narratives in a "post-conflict" era.

Free Download Gregory Erickson, "Reading Heresy: Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art"
English | ISBN: 3110555948 | 2017 | 225 pages | EPUB, PDF | 15 MB + 1386 KB
Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature. Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of both religious and non-religious perspectives, heresy studies fulfill an important gap in scholarly inquiry and artistic production.

Free Download Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties by Nancy Chang, Center for Constitutional Rights, Howard Zinn
English | July 15, 2002 | ISBN: 1583224947 | 168 pages | PDF | 1.21 Mb
In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration’s fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power.

Free Download Ralph Young, Tom Perkins (Narrator), "American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent"
English | ASIN: B0CSLM5T1W | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:30:00 | 269 MB
The history of America is a history of dissent. Protests against the British Parliament’s taxation policies led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. In the twenty-first century, hundreds of thousands protested the war in Iraq, joined the 2011 Occupy movement, the 2017 Women’s March, and the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings. There have been dissenting Americans for as long as there has been an America.
In American Patriots, historian Ralph Young chronicles the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. Some of these protesters are celebrated heroes of American history, while others are ordinary people, frequently overlooked, whose stories show that change is often accomplished through grassroots activism.

Free Download Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 By Wendell Bird
2020 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 0674976134 | PDF | 49 MB
In the first complete account of prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts, dozens of previously unknown cases come to light, revealing the lengths to which the John Adams administration went in order to criminalize dissent.The campaign to prosecute dissenting Americans under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ignited the first battle over the Bill of Rights. Fearing destructive criticism and "domestic treachery" by Republicans, the administration of John Adams led a determined effort to safeguard the young republic by suppressing the opposition.The acts gave the president unlimited discretion to deport noncitizens and made it a crime to criticize the president, Congress, or the federal government. In this definitive account, Wendell Bird goes back to the original federal court records and the papers of Secretary of State Timothy Pickering and finds that the administration’s zeal was far greater than historians have recognized. Indeed, there were twice as many prosecutions and planned deportations as previously believed. The government went after local politicians, raisers of liberty poles, and even tavern drunks but most often targeted Republican newspaper editors, including Benjamin Franklin’s grandson. Those found guilty were sent to prison or fined and sometimes forced to sell their property to survive. The Federalists’ support of laws to prosecute political opponents and opposition newspapers ultimately contributed to the collapse of the party and left a large stain on their record.The Alien and Sedition Acts launched a foundational debate on press freedom, freedom of speech, and the legitimacy of opposition politics. The result was widespread revulsion over the government’s attempt to deprive Americans of their hard-won liberties. Criminal Dissent is a potent reminder of just how fundamental those rights are to a stable democracy.