Tag: Nation

November 28, 2024

Monarchy, Nation and the Common Good Patriotism in Prussia, 1756-1806

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Free Download Jaakko Sivonen, "Monarchy, Nation and the Common Good: Patriotism in Prussia, 1756-1806 "
English | ISBN: 9004710809 | 2024 | 324 pages | PDF | 29 MB
This book provides a history of Prussian state patriotism in the second half of the eighteenth century, showing that it was a movement striving for reform and greater liberty within monarchy and that it was distinct from German nationalism.

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September 29, 2024

Exam Nation Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School [Audiobook]

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Free Download Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School (Audiobook)
English | August 15, 2024 | ASIN: B0D1DLKRYG, B0D1DRZ4XJ | M4B@64 kbps | 10h | 286 MB
Author and Narrator: Sammy Wright
Exams, grades, league tables, Ofsted reports. All of them miss the point of school and together they are undermining our whole approach to education.
What is school for? Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Government’s Social Mobility Commission, head teacher Sammy Wright exposes the fundamental misconception at the heart of our education system. By focussing on the grades pupils get in neatly siloed, academic subjects, we end up ranking them and our schools into winners and losers: some pupils are set on a trajectory to university – the rest are left ill-equipped for the world they actually face.

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September 28, 2024

Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (Mythology of the American West)

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Free Download Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (Mythology of the American West) by Richard Slotkin
English | January 23, 2024 | ISBN: B0CN5J1MGK | 840 pages | EPUB | 2.42 Mb
National Book Award Finalist: The "impressive" conclusion to the "magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history" (Film Quarterly).

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