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Free Download To Reach the Nation’s Ear: A History of African American Public Speaking (American Ways) by Richard W. Leeman
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1538199920 | 254 pages | True EPUB | 3.92 MB
Throughout much of American history, African Americans have been denied easy access to most of the traditional modes of effective reform, such as newspapers, legislative assemblies, unions and political parties. Public speaking has thus been one of the most critically important means by which leaders and individuals have reached an audience, enacted or prevented change, and created community.

Free Download Philip E. Davis, "The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation: A Review of My Life on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0761848258 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 1.8 mb
The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation recalls Davis’ early upbringing and education on two Indian reservations. Davis also assesses the policies of the United States government regarding the status of Indians in society. Scalping is not too strong a term to describe the multiple injustices which the Sioux tribes of South Dakota and elsewhere have suffered. The general hate and bigotry which Custer often displayed toward Indians (and blacks) only reflected a similar feeling among many white settlers, presidents, and congressmen. The Indian struggle for survival, self-governance, and sovereignty has met with limited success since the days of the white and Indian massacres. Federal Indian law has changed slightly to accommodate those desires. Casino gaming has added another dimension to the struggle for decent living conditions, but with dubious consequences for the average Indian.

Free Download Jorge Duany, "The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0807827045, 0807853720 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 3.4 mb
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places-the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952.

Free Download Barbara Sipe, "Portrait of a Nation: Culture and Progress in Ecuador"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1568332629 | PDF | pages: 241 | 1.3 mb
A case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, beliefs and attitudes have kept the country from developing in ways that otherwise would have been possible. As the author asserts, for almost five centuries the cultural habits of Ecuadorian citizens have constituted a stumbling block for individual economic success. Still, he concludes, people’s cultural values are not immutable: inconvenient customs can be changed or influenced by the economic success of immigrants. This is the challenge that Ecuador faces in the twenty-first century.

Free Download Allison K. Shutt, "Manners Make a Nation Racial etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910-1963"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 158046520X | PDF | pages: 259 | 1.3 mb
Shortlisted for the inaugural award of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize

Free Download Rochelle Rowe, "Imagining Caribbean womanhood: Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929-70"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1526150336, 0719088674 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 3.3 mb
Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised.

Free Download Carole Adrienne, "Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1639361855 | EPUB | pages: 364 | 25.2 mb
"An exceptional look at the growth of health care spurred by the Civil War?"-David J Kent, award-winning scientist and author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln’s Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America

Free Download Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (Mythology of the American West) by Richard Slotkin
English | January 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 9781504090346 | 840 pages | True 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).

Free Download America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink by Kenneth M. Stampp
English | April 30th, 1992 | ISBN: 0195039025 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 4.07 MB
It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Mormon governor to replace Brigham Young.

Free Download The Myth of a Guilty Nation By Albert Jay Nock
2011 | 124 Pages | ISBN: 1610162382 | PDF | 5 MB
This was Albert Jay Nock’s first great anti-war book, a cause he backed his entire life as an essential component of a libertarian outlook. The book came out in 1922, and has been in very low circulation ever since. In fact, until this printing, it has been very difficult to obtain in physical form. The narrative has incredible staying power. The burden of the book is to prove American war propaganda to be false. The purpose of the war was not to liberate Europe and the world from German imperialism and threats. Today most everyone knows and understands this, but this was not known in 1922. If there was a conspiracy, it was by the allied powers to broadcast a public message that was completely contradicted by its own diplomatic cables. Nock’s book reminds us of what most everyone has forgotten, namely, that this was was sold as a war for freedom and self determination over imperial ambition. Along with that came some of the most rabid war propaganda ever fabricated until that point in time, all designed to make Germany into a devil nation. Nock’s brave book took on that idea, and demonstrated that there was fault enough to go around on all sides. All through the 1920s, a Nockian-style retelling of the facts behind the war led to a dramatic shift in public opinion against World War I. As the introduction by Anders Mikkelsen points out, "Nock makes the reader aware of the great extent to which the allied politicians continually lied to blame Germany and justify the war, or at least told stories with no regard for the truth. No wonder Hitler found British propaganda so inspiring. In fact the story at the time made it sound like Germany was trying to over-run Europe the way Hitler temporarily did a few decades later." "What makes this book worth reading is not whether this is the best explanation for WWI. It is worth seeing how small groups of state officials engaged in secret actions that led to a catastrophic war, and co