Tag: Rediscovery

Free Download Balchen’s Victory: The Loss and Rediscovery of an Admiral and His Ship by Alan Smith
English | March 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1399094122 | 256 pages | MOBI | 27 Mb
This is the story of Admiral Sir John Balchen, his life and career, and HMS Victory, the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, which he commanded when both were lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744. Admiral John Balchen was a courageous, if not heroic, naval officer who saw major engagements and his legacy in naval development deserves greater recognition. Indeed, the story of both the ship and her commander, their individual and remarkably parallel lives, can now be revealed as fundamental catalysts to the revolutionary reforms in naval shipbuilding, design and dockyard administration that transformed the Royal Navy after 1745. The exciting discovery of the wreck of HMS Victory in 2008, the subsequent and continuing public and political wrangling over possible salvage, and the 2019 display at Portsmouth of a mighty 42-pounder bronze gun retrieved from the wreck, have been the catalyst for this history of the admiral and his ship.

Free Download The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) by Ned Blackhawk
English | April 25, 2023 | ISBN: 0300244053 | 616 pages | MOBI | 14 Mb
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Free Download The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy by Kathy Eden
English | May 3, 2012 | ISBN: 0226184625, 022652664X | True EPUB | 180 pages | 4.3 MB
In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy. It was Petrarch’s encounter with this previously unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries were expected to read and write.

Free Download Balchen’s Victory: The Loss and Rediscovery of an Admiral and His Ship by Alan Smith
English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1399094122 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 29.97 MB
This is the story of Admiral Sir John Balchen, his life and career, and HMS Victory, the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, which he commanded when both were lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744. This is not the Victory of Trafalgar fame, however, but the First Rate built some thirty years earlier, the last Royal Navy three-decker to carry bronze cannons, and a ship whose poor design may well have contributed to her loss.

Free Download Ned Blackhawk, Jason Grasl (Narrator), "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History"
English | ASIN: B0CNH9CBBN | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~17:18:00 | 476 MB
The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that: European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; Native nations helped shape England’s crisis of empire; the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; and twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk’s retelling of US history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.

Free Download Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony
English | May 17, 2022 | ISBN: 1684511097 | 256 pages | PDF | 6.02 Mb
The idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism-widely held since the 1960s-is seriously mistaken.

Free Download The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch, William Hughes, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2007 | ISBN: B00124WAYM | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 7 hours and 22 minutes + EPUB | 102 Mb
One day in 1872, self-taught Assyriologist George Smith was sifting through a pile of clay tablets when he realized he was reading about "a flood, storm, a ship caught on a mountain, and a bird sent out in search of dry land". This is the riveting story of the discovery of the world’s first literary epic, the "Epic of Gilgamesh".

Free Download Barry Lopez, "The Rediscovery of North America"
English | 1992 | ISBN: 0679740996, 0813117429 | EPUB | pages: 58 | 1.8 mb
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion – "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day.