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Free Download Clyde Walcott: Statesman of West Indies cricket
by Peter Mason
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1526181606 | 209 Pages | PDF | 5.67 MB

Free Download Natsuko Matsumori, "The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies: Barbarism and Political Order "
English | ISBN: 1138960977 | 2018 | 278 pages | EPUB, PDF | 880 KB + 3 MB
The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies explores the significance of Salamancans, such as Vitoria and Soto, and related thinkers, such as Las Casas and Sepúlveda, in the formation of the early modern political order. It also analyses early modern understandings of political order, with a focus both on the decline of the medieval universal world through the independence and secularization of political community and the establishment of continuous and imbalanced relations between various European and non-European political communities.

Free Download The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941-42: Japan’s Quest for Oil (Campaign, 364) by Marc Lohnstein, Graham Turner
English | July 27, 2021 | ISBN: 1472843525 | 96 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
At the end of 1941, Imperial Japan targeted The East Indies in an attempt to secure access to precious oil resources. The Netherlands East Indies Campaign featured complex Japanese and Allied operations, and included the first use of airborne troops in the war. This highly illustrated study is one of the less well-known campaigns of the Pacific War.

Free Download Malaya & Dutch East Indies 1941-42: Japan’s air power shocks the world (Air Campaign, 19) by Mark Stille, Jim Laurier
English | October 27, 2020 | ISBN: 1472840593 | 96 pages | MOBI | 17 Mb
This illustrated study explains how Japan’s all-conquering air forces spearheaded the invasions of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies and stunned the defending British, Dutch, and American forces.

Free Download Dominiek Dendooven, "The British West Indies Regiment: Race and Colour on the Western Front"
English | ISBN: 1399067699 | 2023 | 144 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative – race, color and prejudice. But despite this, there is an extraordinary underlying theme of empire loyalty among serving soldiers – NCOs and private soldiers – and a growing grasp of political ideas and liberal democracy. And the loyalty to the British crown as an agent of the ending of slavery will be amazing to some readers.

Free Download Paul M.M. Doolan, "Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization "
English | ISBN: 9463728740 | 2021 | 334 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary approach and applying several theoretical frames from literary studies, sociology, cultural anthropology and film theory, the author reveals how mediated memories contributed to a process of what he calls "unremembering." He analyses in detail a broad variety of sources, including novels, films, documentaries, radio interviews, memoirs and historical studies, to reveal how five decades of representing and remembering decolonization fed into an unremembering by which some key notions were silenced or ignored. The author concludes that historians, or the historical guild, bear much responsibility for the unremembering of decolonization in Dutch collective memory.

Free Download By Fire and Bayonet: Grey’s West Indies Campaign of 1794 (From Reason to Revolution) by Steve Brown
English | May 20th, 2022 | ISBN: 1915070902 | 250 pages | True EPUB | 4.81 MB
There have been few books about Grey’s glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey’s expeditionary force went on to command divisions in Wellington’s Peninsula army; another two commanded the Iron Duke’s Royal Artillery; and one (Richard Fletcher) – famously – the Royal Engineers.

Free Download Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul By Jennifer Rahim; Barbara Lalla
2011 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 9766374120 | PDF | 10 MB
"Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul updates and furthers the debates on the life and work of an internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate and native son of Trinidad and Tobago. The book draws together the proceedings of a series of outstanding public lectures and an academic symposium that featured a distinguished cadre of Caribbean scholars who, during 2007, participated in a year-long schedule of activities initiated by the University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, to honour the life and work of this highly accomplished ‘enigma’ of Caribbean letters. The essays in this collection are organised into three sections that represent a compression of the multifaceted range of V.S. Naipaul’s creative concerns, thematic explorations, even obsessions, and philosophical persuasions. The singular power of these contributions is their ability to push at the borders of Naipaul scholarship, cutting new pathways for considering this most intriguing creative mind and offering fresh perspectives on the now familiar themes of postcolonial identity and nationalism, the fiction of history and history of fiction, home and belonging in a world characterised by flux, movement and cultural contact. Controversy has always companioned Naipaul’s career. Not surprisingly, some of the contributions are unrelentingly honest in their exposé of Naipaul for his trademark impatience with the very societies that created his unique sensibility and his propensity for self-contradiction. "