Tag: Ruling

Free Download Deborah Sutton, "Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the British Imperial Imagination "
English | ISBN: 1438499205 | 2024 | 294 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

Free Download Mubanga E Kashoki, "What on Earth Is a Ruling Party in a Multiparty Democracy? Musings and Ruminations of an Armchair Critic"
English | ISBN: 9982240889 | 2014 | 138 pages | PDF | 1210 KB
The primary objective of What on Earth is a Ruling Party in a Multiparty Democracy? is to provoke thought and thereby stimulate debate. To this end, provocatively, this collection of topical issues ranges from ‘The place of the miniskirt in sociocultural development’ to ‘Which citizen in Zambia should not take part in (partisan) politics?’ The Author, Mubanga E Kashoki, is a Professor of African Languages at the institute of Economic and Social Research in the University of Zambia.

Free Download Heather Lehr Wagner, "The Medicis: A Ruling Dynasty"
English | 2005 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 0791086305 | PDF | 4,5 mb
This wealthy Italian family from Tuscany and Florence directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th century through 1737. Their patronage of the arts made Florence a center of European culture.

Free Download Ellis Wasson, "The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945"
English | ISBN: 3110548364 | 2017 | 900 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The book provides a comprehensive reference source for the governing class of Great Britain and Ireland from Oliver Cromwell to Winston Churchill, and offers a deep pool of data to support analysis of social, political, economic, and cultural history in the British Isles over the course of more than four centuries.

Free Download Ellis Wasson, "The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945 Vol. 2"
English | ISBN: 3110562383 | 2017 | 910 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The book provides a comprehensive reference source for the governing class of Great Britain and Ireland from Oliver Cromwell to Winston Churchill, and offers a deep pool of data to support analysis of social, political, economic, and cultural history in the British Isles over the course of more than four centuries.

Free Download Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Julius Caesar to Agricola By David Braund
1996 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0415008042 | PDF | 9 MB
In this book, David Braund offers a significantly different perspective upon the history of Roman Britain. He concentrates upon the literary evidence, which has been studied to a lesser extent than archaeology in recent years. Close attention to the Greek and Roman sources enables the construction of a new approach to Roman Britain, its history and its archaeology. For the first time, monarchy is identified as a key issue in the history of Roman Britain.

Free Download Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
English | October 24, 2023 | ISBN: 0871404222 | 512 pages | PDF | 28 Mb
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Free Download Ari Ofengenden, "The Ruling Ideas: How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable"
English | ISBN: 1789049598 | 2023 | 415 pages | EPUB | 929 KB
Ideas that are employed to legitimize and make us consent to authority and its hierarchies also disempower us, leaving us anxious, depressed, and discontent. They are constantly hammered into us by the media, by our friends and family, and by institutions. They also come to us by way of films, motivational speakers, business gurus, as well as in the actions we take in our everyday lives and in the experiences of who we are. In The Ruling Ideas: How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable, Ari Ofengenden examines many of these ideas, such as the entrepreneurial-self, the utility-oriented economic man, technological progress, virtues and values, as well as family values, God, nation and race. Ofengenden provides a deft analysis, on the one hand, of the beliefs we hold, the ideas behind them that make us consent to the social order, and how we often fool ourselves into believing these ideas; on the other hand, the author proffers a way to combat these ideas, to live without them and develop alternatives.

Free Download The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom by Christian Raffensperger, Donald Ostrowski
English | September 11, 2023 | ISBN: 1789147158 | 388 pages | PDF | 35 Mb
A new history of the Kyivan Rus, a medieval dynastic state in eastern Europe.

Free Download György Péteri, "The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class: Greed and Creed "
English | ISBN: 1666923966 | 2023 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 4 MB
The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class: Greed and Creed discusses the history of everyday life under state socialism and the ways in which post-1945 modernity reached the shores of Soviet Bloc societies. This book explains state socialism’s failure to deliver on its promise to create a new type of modern civilization, an alternative to capitalism. Placing the practices of the class of salaried functionaries of the party-state in the focus, György Péteri demonstrates the decisive role of this class in bringing Western values and patterns of everyday to the cultures and societies of Eastern Europe. The empirical work presented covers areas like consumption and consumerism, mobility (the advent of mass automobilism) and leisure (hunting and vacationing). Based on the Hungarian experience, the author finds the communist avantgarde of the state-socialist project in the act of giving up the ambition to create a new (socialist) civilization already in the late 1950s, early 1960s. From the 1960s on, state socialism was no longer a rival of capitalism (the ‘highly developed West’) in terms of creating a competitive, alternative modernity in its everyday. Rather, Eastern Europe settles among other regions of the periphery or semi-periphery of capitalist development, reacting to, imitating and, in general, following the patterns of the highly developed capitalist center of the world system with some delay.