Tag: Resistance

Free Download Mervyn Busteed, "The Irish in Manchester c.1750-1921: Resistance, adaptation and identity"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0719087198, 1526134357 | EPUB | pages: 286 | 3.7 mb
This book examines the development of the Irish community in Manchester, one of the most dynamic cities of nineteenth-century Britain. Based on research into a wide variety of local sources, it examines the process by which the Irish came to be blamed for all the ills of the Industrial Revolution and the ways in which they attempted to cope with a sometimes actively hostile environment. It discusses the nature and degree of residential segregation in one notable Irish district and the role of the Catholic Church as a source of spiritual comfort and the base for a dense network of mutual aid and social and cultural organisations. It also examines how the Irish community allied itself with local campaign groups and political parties and organised celebrations and processions that simultaneously expressed its evolving sense of Irishness but fitted in with local traditions and customs.

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English | January 12, 2021 | ISBN: 1507214200 | 272 pages | MOBI | 38 Mb
Lose weight while enjoying delicious meals with these 125 insulin resistant recipes and meal plans to improve your health and lower your risk for type 2 diabetes.

Free Download Anand Gopal, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, "The Anti-Inauguration: Building resistance in the Trump era"
English | 2016 | ASIN: B06XPC6XR5 | EPUB | pages: 59 | 0.7 mb
Featuring contributions from Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal, and Owen Jones.

Free Download Akbar S. Ahmed, "Resistance and Control in Pakistan"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0415349109, 0415349117 | EPUB | pages: 206 | 2.9 mb
How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world? Is Islamic fundamentalism to be understood purely in religious terms?

Free Download Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social History by Patrick Bishop
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 1639367039 | 400 pages | EPUB | 31 Mb
A moving, dramatic social history of the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the most inspiring and momentous events of the twentieth century.

Free Download Isaura Pulido, Angelica Rivera, Ann M. Aviles, "Latina/o/x Education in Chicago: Roots, Resistance, and Transformation"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0252044509, 0252086570 | EPUB | pages: 254 | 1.6 mb
In this collection, local experts use personal narratives and empirical data to explore the history of Mexican American and Puerto Rican education in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The essays focus on three themes: the historical context of segregated and inferior schooling for Latina/o/x students; the changing purposes and meanings of education for Latina/o/x students from the 1950s through today; and Latina/o/x resistance to educational reforms grounded in neoliberalism. Contributors look at stories of student strength and resistance, the oppressive systems forced on Mexican American women, the criminalization of Puerto Ricans fighting for liberatory education, and other topics of educational significance. As they show, many harmful past practices remain the norm-or have become worse. Yet Latina/o/x communities and students persistently engage in transformative practices shaping new approaches to education that promise to reverberate not only in the city but nationwide.

Free Download Philip Cooke, Ben H. Shepherd, "European Resistance in the Second World War"
English | 2013 | ASIN: B00MJK2ZM0 | EPUB | pages: 460 | 9.1 mb
Resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred all the way across the European continent during the Second World War. It took a wide range of forms – non-cooperation and disinformation, sabotage, espionage, armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare. It is an important element in the experience and the national memory of the peoples who found themselves under Axis government and control. For over thirty years there has been no systematic attempt to give readers a panoramic yet detailed view of the make-up, actions and impact of resistance movements from Scandinavia down to Greece and from France through to Russia. This authoritative and accessible survey, written by a group of the leading experts in the field, provides a reliable, in-depth, up-to-date account of the resistance in each region and country along with an assessment of its effectiveness and of the Axis reaction to it. An extensive introduction by the editors Philip Cooke and Ben H. Shepherd draws the threads of the varied movements and groups together, highlighting the many differences and similarities between them.The book will be a significant contribution to the frequently heated debates about the importance of individual resistance movements. It will be thought-provoking reading for everyone who is interested in or studying occupied Europe during the Second World War.

Free Download Dale T. Graden, "Disease, Resistance, and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0807155292 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 1.5 mb
In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes – the United States, Brazil, and Cuba – witnessed explosive commercial growth. Commodities like cotton, coffee, and sugar contributed to the fantastic wealth of an elite few and the enslavement of many. As a result of an increased population and concurrent economic expansion, the United States widened its trade relationship with Cuba and Brazil, importing half of Brazil’s coffee exports and 82 percent of Cuba’s total exports by 1877. Disease, Resistance, and Lies examines the impact of these burgeoning markets on the Atlantic slave trade between these countries from 1808 – when the U.S. government outlawed American involvement in the slave trade to Cuba and Brazil – to 1867, when slave traffic to Cuba ceased.

Free Download Erik Skare, "Digital Jihad: Palestinian Resistance in the Digital Era"
English | 2016 | ASIN: B09LQQX56G | EPUB | pages: 242 | 1.2 mb
A new and innovative form of dissent has emerged in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Dubbed "electronic jihad", this approach has seen organized groups of Palestinian hackers make international headlines by breaching the security of such sites as the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, AVG, Avira, Whatsapp, and BitDefender. Though initially confined to small clandestine groups, "hacktivism" is now increasingly being adopted by militant Palestinian parties, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who have gone so far as to incorporate hackers into their armed brigades.

Free Download Shailendra Kumar Singh, "Between Resistance and Conformity"
English | ISBN: 1032859199 | 2024 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the questions of conformity and resistance with respect to Premchand’s literary corpus. Mapping the various complexities, challenges, and contradictions of interwar India, it demonstrates how the passive peasant protagonists of the writer’s fictional works present a diametrically opposed definition of dharma as compared to their dissident nationalist counterparts. Through a relatively similar logic of comparative assessment, it further foregrounds the fundamental asymmetry that exists between Premchand’s literary representations of women as compliant domestic subjects and those that portray them as rebel patriots of colonial North India. Juxtaposing several genres, including novels, short stories, letters, and journalistic writings to offer a reconsideration of Premchand’s work, this book will interest scholars of peasant narratives, nationalist fiction, and gender studies.