Tag: Nation

Free Download Dr. Nora E.H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah (Volume 7) "
English | ISBN: 0520394658 | 2023 | 232 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more.

Free Download Mark I. Choate, "Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0674027841 | PDF | pages: 340 | 31.4 mb
Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world history. As the young Italian state struggled to adapt to the exodus, it pioneered the establishment of a "global nation"―an Italy abroad cemented by ties of culture, religion, ethnicity, and economics.

Free Download Stephen Snelders, "Drug smuggler nation: Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920-1995"
English | ISBN: 1526151391 | 2021 | 304 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs? This study investigates the histories of smugglers and criminal entrepreneurs in the Netherlands who succeeded in turning the country into the so-called ‘Colombia of Europe’ or, ‘the international drug supermarket’.

Free Download Alexander Freund, "Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants’ Local Lives in Transnational Cultures"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1442642785 | PDF | pages: 313 | 0.7 mb
Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries – from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migration – including Dirk Hoerder and the late Christiane Harzig – detail these German-Canadians’ experiences of immigration by investigating their imagined communities and collective memories.

Free Download Michael A. Verney, "A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic "
English | ISBN: 0226819922 | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 7 MB
A Great and Rising Nation illuminates the unexplored early decades of the United States’ imperialist naval aspirations.

Free Download Clean Energy Nation: Freeing America from the Tyranny of Fossil Fuels
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0814413722 | 321 Pages | EPUB (True) | 7.5 MB
In the vein of "An Inconvenient Truth," a sobering assessment of our nation’s energy policies and a stirring call for change. Dangerous CO2 emissions, massive oil spills, dwindling supplies-the problems with fossil fuels are driving a long-overdue reassessment of our nation’s energy policies. U.S. Congressman Jerry McNerney, a renewable energy engineer and the first representative with expertise in energy independence, leads the way to change. In Clean Energy Nation, he and journalist Martin Cheek make an impassioned argument for drastically reducing dependency on fossil fuels and developing sustainable, readily available energy sources-solar, wind, biofuel, geothermal, and hydrogen-based power. Bringing together a rare combination of scientific knowledge, political savvy, and insightful journalism, the authors reveal the pros and cons of alternative energy sources and examine how our nation became addicted to fossil fuels in the first place. The book reads like the dramatic story it is, complete with dire projections about peak oil and grim scenarios of rising oceans…keen insights into policies and players that have stalled progress on climate change and favored big oil…and astute recommendations for building a clean energy economy and a prosperous, stable future.

Free Download Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1MMJGL | 2023 | 15 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 419 MB
Author: Edward G. Gray
Narrator: Walter Dixon
The story of the Mason-Dixon Line is the story of America’s colonial beginnings, nation building, and conflict over slavery. Acclaimed historian Edward Gray offers the first comprehensive narrative of the America’s defining border. Formalized in 1767, the Mason-Dixon Line resolved a generations-old dispute that began with the establishment of Pennsylvania in 1681. In 1780, Pennsylvania’s Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery inaugurated the next phase in the Line’s history. Proslavery and antislavery sentiments had long coexisted in the Maryland-Pennsylvania borderlands, but now African Americans faced a boundary between distinct legal regimes.

Free Download Grkem Akgz, "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-building, and Working-class Politics in Turkey "
English | ISBN: 9004416749 | 2023 | 392 pages | PDF | 51 MB
In the Shadow of War and Empire tells the story of how workers in Turkey, who were recategorised from imperial subjects to citizens, lived and worked through the simultaneous processes of postimperial nation-building and state-led industrialisation, and struggled to be heard amid the thunder of nationalist developmentalism.

Free Download John Roberts, "Safeguarding the Nation: The Story of the Modern Royal Navy"
English | 2009 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 1848320434, 159114812X | EPUB | 109,6 mb
This new history of the Royal Navy, published to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the White Ensign Association, is a full and exciting account of all the many campaigns, operations and deployments conducted around the world from the Cold War and the Cod Wars to the Falklands War and the Gulf Wars. It has been written and compiled from privileged access to secret and confidential Admiralty Plans and Commanding Officers’ reports and contains a wealth of previously unpublished material. The story of how the Royal Navy has adapted to meet the many new challenges of the modern world and how it has carried out its vital roles from manning the nation’s strategic nuclear deterrent to guarding the vital offshore oil and gas facilities as well as protecting Britain’s worldwide interests is a truly fascinating one, while the development of ships, submarines, aircraft, weapons, tactics and strategies as well as the changes in personnel and life at sea are brought to life by contributions from people who served over the period. Profusely illustrated throughout with many previously unpublished photographs and paintings, this beautifully-produced volume is a magnificent golden jubilee tribute to the Royal Navy.

Free Download Juan Carlos Conzalez Espita, "On the Dark Side of the Archive: Nation and Literature in Spanish America at the Turn of the Century"
English | 2009 | pages: 250 | ISBN: 0838757367 | PDF | 1,7 mb
On the Dark Side of the Archive examines nineteenth-century nation building through narratives that are not part of the romantic or realist traditions, specifically those associated with the critique of traditional ideals often portrayed in Decadentism and modernismo. The study focuses on the "non-canonical" works of turn-of-the-century authors – including Jose Maria Vargas Vila, Horacia Quiroga, Clemente Palma, and Jose Marti – and concludes with a study that compares the literary portrayal of doomed societies in the nineteenth-century with the work of contemporary authors, such as Fernando Vallejo.