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Free Download Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America (Reconstructing America) by Brian Schoen, Remaking North American Sovereignty Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers
English | January 3, 2023 | ISBN: 1531501281 | 272 pages | PDF | 6.43 Mb
Written by leading historians of the mid-nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the West.

Free Download Rob Chidley, "Building Bridges: Is there hope for North Korea?"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0745955983 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 1.1 mb
For sixty years North Korea has had neither war nor peace; simply an Armistice signed in 1953 – this lack of resolution has perpetuated instability, fear, and a risk of further tragedy. Behind the backdrop is the ever present danger of a major conflict. Lord Alton suggests that there is a better way to relate to the pariah state. There are many issues to be addressed; including serious concerns over the grave, systematic and widespread violation of human rights, including reported executions, torture, violations of religious freedom and humanitarian concerns. Lord Alton argues that through patient but firm engagement, this situation is capable of resolution. Distinguishing between an antipathy towards a decaying political ideology and a love of the dignified and courageous Korean people must remain the central concern – we must encourage the tiny shoots of hope and above all build bridges through constructive, critical engagement.

Free Download Huaiyin Li, "Village Governance in North China: 1875-1936"
English | 2005 | pages: 340 | ISBN: 0804750912 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author’s interpretation of village/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of "state making" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new process of political legitimization.

Free Download Halim Barakat, "Contemporary North Africa: Issues of Development and Integration "
English | ISBN: 1138122033 | 2015 | 282 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book by a group of international scholars, both Arab and Western, was first published in 1985, and considers the state of contemporary North Africa and its position both in the Arab world and within wider international affairs. It examines the cultural and historical contexts which have shaped political and social conditions within the region. It also considers the nature of intra-regional conflict which has long been a feature of the North African political scene. The sociological impact of economic development within the region is treated at length, as are the changing positions of both the traditional elites and new groups such as women workers.

Free Download Silvia Colombo, "Political and Institutional Transition in North Africa: Egypt and Tunisia in Comparative Perspective"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0367589907, 081534709X | EPUB | pages: 194 | 0.8 mb
The year 2011 will go down in history as a turning point for the Arab world. The popular unrest that swept across the region and led to the toppling of the Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Qaddhafi regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya has fundamentally altered the social, economic, and political outlooks of these countries and the region as a whole.

Free Download Nancy Bonvillain, "The Hopi (Indians of North America)"
English | 2005 | pages: 121 | ISBN: 0791079902, 0791007251 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Examines the history, culture, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Hopi Indians.

Free Download The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5ZM8CKB | 2024 | 8 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Rosie Schaap
Narrator: Rosie Schaap
From the acclaimed author, a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful book-equal parts memoir and social history-that follows the author, after a series of tragic losses, to Northern Ireland, where she finds a path toward healing. Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun: all drinking and dining and traveling to beautiful places-and getting paid to write about it. But under the surface she was reeling from the loss of her husband and her mother-who died just one year apart. Caring for them had claimed much of her daily life in her late thirties. Mourning them would take longer.

Free Download Six Victories: North Africa Malta and the Mediterranean Convoy War November 1941 – March 1942 (Audiobook)
English | May 12, 2020 | ASIN: B087D5SPT4 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 14m | 569 MB
Author: Vincent O’Hara | Narrator: Michael Page
In October 1941, the British Admiralty based a surface strike force in Malta to attack Axis sea lanes between Italy and Africa. Aided by Ultra intelligence, submarines, and bombers based in Malta, this force dominated the Central Mediterranean. From the end of October through the middle of December 1941, less than a third of the supplies shipped from Italian ports arrived in Libya.
Shortages of ammunition and fuel finally compelled the Afrika Korps to retreat 400 miles. Then, in the space of 30 hours, this all changed. First, Italian naval forces broke the blockade by fighting through a major convoy that arrived in time to blunt the British advance; next, the strike force plowed into a minefield laid by Italian cruisers; and finally, in a daring attack, Italian commandos crippled the Mediterranean Fleet’s battleships in port. The swing in fortune was immediate and dramatic.

Free Download True North: Travels in Arctic Europe (Canons) by Gavin Francis
English | November 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 1837261954 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 5.04 MB
Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers to the Vikings to modern polar adventurers, he travels through history and legend to find out why – and how – we are drawn to the North.

Free Download Joseph Emonds, "The North Germanic Morphosyntax of Modern English"
English | ISBN: B0D4YVBNNM | 2024 | 284 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 5 MB
This book argues that Middle English – and hence Modern English – is a direct descendent of Anglo Norse, the language of Viking settlers who invaded and ruled the north and east of England (the so-called Danelaw) for about 200 years preceding the Norman conquest. The authors challenge the widely accepted assumption that Middle English descends from Anglo-Saxon. Presenting over 20 arguments in morphology and syntax, they show that the patterns found in standard history of English sources derive from the North Germanic Scandinavian languages. The book shows that, while Danes ruled all England (1013-1066), their Anglo-Norse, lexically but not grammatically close to Anglo-Saxon, superseded the latter throughout England. Sentential word order, modern phrasal verbs, stranded prepositions, and standard regular noun plurals, phonetic