Tag: Popular

Free Download J.R. Oldfield, "Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0714644625 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.8 mb
In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain.

Free Download Susanne Brandtstädter, Hans Steinmüller, "Popular Politics and the Quest for Justice in Contemporary China"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0367172658 | EPUB | pages: 178 | 0.3 mb
The rise of popular politics is among one the most significant social and political developments the People’s Republic of China has witnessed in the post-Mao era. People from all walks of life have responded to rising inequalities and the privatization of collective goods with a new quest for justice. Although China has remained a censorial society under the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party, state-society relations are being remade by interventions of emergent publics through word and action.

Free Download Francois Polet, "The State of Resistance: Popular Struggles in the Global South"
English | 2007 | pages: 225 | ISBN: 1842778676 | PDF | 1,0 mb
This indispensable book offers a panorama of social resistances to neoliberal globalization in the South. Writers and activists from forty different countries or regions offer snapshots of the latest mobilizations, from the anti-privatization groups in South Africa and the anti-WTO campaign of peasants in India, to the indigenous movement behind Evo Morales in Bolivia. The book focuses on a range of diverse popular struggles that impact on democratic and development process, yet receive little public attention or are caricatured by mainstream media. It is an essential guide to the latest developments in social movements.

Free Download Montague Summers, "A Popular History of Witchcraft "
English | ISBN: 0415604621 | 2011 | 296 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This is a comprehensive guide to the practices of witchcraft from their inception to the present day. Summers argues that all witchcraft is essentially the same, regardless of geographical location. He examines the practices of the cult in great detail, and its historical progression, within the context of the 1736 Repeal Act of George II.

Free Download Marcus Power, "Cinema and Popular Geo-politics"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415348188 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.5 mb
With a detailed range of approaches, this new collection investigates how cinematic narratives can and have been used to portray different political ‘threats’ and ‘dangers’.

Free Download Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live
by James V. Morrison
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032763248 | 244 Pages | True PDF | 8.3 MB

Free Download Favourite Australian Plants: 500 Popular Natives for Your Garden by Angus Stewart
English | December 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1761471872 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 198.12 MB
Best-loved native plants selected by Australia’s favourite gardening expert, with all the information you need to choose the right one for your situation.

Free Download J. F. C. Harrison, "The Second Coming: Popular Millenarianism, 1780-1850 "
English | ISBN: 0415531152 | 2013 | 308 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
First published in 1979, The Second Coming is an experiment in the writing of popular history – a contribution to the history of the people who have no history and an exploration of some of the ideas, beliefs and ways of thinking of ordinary men and women in the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Millenarianism is a conceptual tool with which to explore some aspects of popular thought and culture. It is also seen as an ideology of social change and as a continuing tradition, traced from the end of the seventeenth century to the 1790s, and is shown to be embedded in folk culture.

Free Download Popular Memory and Franco’s ‘Disappeared’ in Spain: Telling Stories of Mourning, Resistance, and Activism
by Francie Cate
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031727274 | 421 Pages | True ePUB | 0.69 MB

Free Download Denise Gimpel, "Lost Voices of Modernity: A Chinese Popular Fiction Magazine in Context"
English | 2001 | pages: 337 | ISBN: 0824824679 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Lost Voices of Modernity uncovers the story of the most popular and perhaps the most maligned modern Chinese literary journal, Xiaoshuo yuebao (The Short Story Magazine). First published in Shanghai in 1910, Xiaoshuo yuebao boasted a circulation of ten thousand within its first three years of publication. Scholars have long characterized the journal as little more than superficial popular entertainment (primarily action/adventure and love stories) and attributed its early popularity to an urban audience’s need for distraction and escape. Now, however, Denise Gimpel’s persuasive and effective study reveals a journal of serious appearance and intent.