Tag: Middle

The Waxing of the Middle Ages


Free Download The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1644532913 | 291 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the , first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga’s perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance persists. Yet, a series of exceptionally significant cultural developments mark the period.

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Screwed The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class — And What We Can Do About It


Free Download Thom Hartmann, "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class – And What We Can Do About It"
English | 2007 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1576754634, 1576754146 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
Our founding fathers worked hard to ensure that a small group of wealthy people would never dominate this country-they’d had enough of aristocracy. They put government to work to ensure a thriving middle class. When the middle class took a hit, beginning in the post-Civil War Gilded Age and culminating in the Great Depression, democracy-loving leaders like Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower revitalized it through initiatives like antitrust regulations, fair labor laws, the minimum wage, Social Security, and Medicare.

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Coins & Currency of the Middle East A Descriptive Guide to Pocket Collectibles


Free Download Tom Michael, George S. Cuhaj, "Coins & Currency of the Middle East: A Descriptive Guide to Pocket Collectibles"
English | 2006 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0896892298 | EPUB | 24,2 mb
World news and events of the last 25 years are helping create a popular new market in collecting. This one-of-a-kind guide supplies valuable answers to questions about currency from the Middle Easy in an easy-to-follow format.Coins & Paper Money of the Middle East includes brief histories of various military operations, background about the 20+ affected countries and people, and more than 300 color illustrations of coins and paper money.

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