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Free Download The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design
by Kenny Cupers
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1477329811 | 390 Pages | PDF | 14.8 MB

Free Download Defensive Nationalism: Explaining the Rise of Populism and Fascism in the 21st Century by B. S. Rabinowitz
English | July 21, 2023 | ISBN: 0197672035 | 302 pages | MOBI | 2.01 Mb
A stunningly novel account of why populism and fascism are on the rise in the early 21st century.

Free Download Maggi Smith-Dalton, "A History of Spiritualism and the Occult in Salem: The Rise of Witch City"
English | ISBN: 1609495519 | 2012 | 160 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Salem, Massachusetts, is the quintessential New England town, with its cobbled streets and strong ties to the sea. With the notoriety of the Salem witch trials, the city’s reputation has been irrevocably linked to the occult. However, few know the history behind the religion of Spiritualism and the social movement that took root in this romanticized land. At the turn of the century, seers, mediums and magnetic healers all hoped to connect to the spiritual world. The popularity of Spiritualism and renewed interest in the occult blossomed out of an attempt to find an intellectual and emotional balance between science and religion. Learn of early converts, the role of the venerable Essex Institute and the psychic legacy of "Moll" Pitcher. Historian Maggi Smith-Dalton delves into Salem’s exotic history, unraveling the beginnings of Spiritualism and the rise of the Witch City.

Free Download Philip Clarke, "The Rise of the Stylist: Subculture, Style and the Fashion Image in London 1980-1990"
English | ISBN: 1350301663 | 2024 | 168 pages | PDF | 63 MB
The Rise of the Stylist examines the social factors that contributed to the stylist becoming a key role in fashion image-making. The 1980s’ stylist is presented as a cultural intermediary and auteur, as commercial compass and avant-garde innovator.

Free Download Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi by Alison Pargeter
English | July 31, 2012 | ISBN: 0300139322 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 1.7 MB
The entire story of Qaddafi’s corrupt and repressive regime, the details of its downfall, and what Libya’s future may hold in store

Free Download The Great Power Competition Volume 6: The Rise of China
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031707664 | 371 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 25 MB
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents a monumental shift in the global power landscape. Through ambitious infrastructure projects and strategic economic investments, China has emerged as a formidable challenger to U.S. dominance in the modern Great Power Competition (GPC), leveraging a unique blend of soft power and non-interference policy. This distinctive strategy has allowed China to rapidly gain footholds in resource rich regions such as Central Asia-South Asia (CASA) and the Middle East, compelling the U.S. to rethink its foreign policy approach in response. Given China’s adept leveraging of soft power in these geostrategic regions, the critical question arises: how can the U.S. meet the nuanced challenges of the modern GPC?

Free Download Hermann Göring: The Rise and Fall: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter
English | May 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1399050435 | 128 pages | PDF | 37 Mb
This entry in the popular Images of War series features graphic contemporary images of Göring and other leading Nazis.

Free Download A Patriot’s History of Globalism: Its Rise and Decline by Larry Schweikart, Stephen K Bannon
English | February 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1648210058 | 360 pages | PDF | 6.30 Mb
Larry Schweikart has won wide acclaim for his number oneNew York Timesbestseller,A Patriot’s History of the United States. Now, with A Patriot’s History of Globalism, Schweikart shows that globalism, or the attempt to form a one-world government is nothing new.

Free Download Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance: The Human Environment (Studies in Environment and History) by Sverker Sörlin, Eric Paglia
English | December 19, 2024 | ISBN: 100917780X | 362 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
This unique history examines global environmental governance through the lens of Stockholm, which has played an outsized role in shaping its development. Fifty years before Greta Thunberg started her School Strike for Climate, Swedish diplomats initiated the seminal 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment that propelled Stockholm to the forefront of international environmental affairs. Stockholm has since become a hub for scientific and political approaches to managing the environmental and climate crisis. Utilizing archival materials and oral histories, Sörlin and Paglia recount how, over seventy years, Stockholm-based actors helped construct the architecture of environmental governance through convening decisive meetings, developing scientific concepts and establishing influential institutions at the intersection of science and politics. Focusing on this specific yet crucial location, the authors provide a broad overview of global events and detailed account of Stockholm’s extraordinary impact. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Free Download Siniša Malešević, "The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 110709562X | PDF | pages: 350 | 1.9 mb
Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows organised violence is, in fact, on the rise. Malešević demonstrates that violence is determined by organisational capacity, ideological penetration and micro-solidarity, rather than biological tendencies, meaning that despite pre-modern societies being exposed to spectacles of cruelty and torture, such societies had no organisational means to systematically slaughter millions of individuals. Malešević suggests that violence should not be analysed as just an event or process, but also via changing perceptions of those events and processes, and by linking this to broader social transformations on the inter-polity and inter-group levels he makes his key argument that organised violence has proliferated. Focusing on wars, revolutions, genocides and terrorism, this book shows how modern social organisations utilise ideology and micro-solidarity to mobilise public support for mass scale violence.