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Free Download Michael Gehler, "From Saint-Germain to Lisbon: Austria’s Long Road from Disintegrated to United Europe 1919-2009 "
English | ISBN: 3700182325 | 2020 | 1287 pages | PDF | 22 MB
This comprehensive book is mainly based on primary archive sources and eyewitness talks. It focuses on Austria’s relations to Europe in general, two significant issues of European integration especially after 1945 as well as on its EU membership. Ten chapters will show the developments over decades in a chronological manner. One concentrates on Austria’s small room for political maneuverability between concepts of Middle Europe, Paneurope, the "Anschluss" by Nazi-Germany (1918-1938) and the exile groups (1938-1945). A further chapter deals with Austria’s participation in the Marshall-Plan and the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC, 1947-1953). The next chapter focuses on the intended arrangements with the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which were a tightrope act between Western orientation and neutrality (1954-1956). A further chapter shows the unsatisfactory membership within the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the failed attempts of association with the European Economic Community (EEC, 1961-1967). Free trade remained as a substitute solution (1972). One chapter demonstrates Austria’s policy of "wait and see" (1972-1986) and a further one examines the attempts of full membership in the European Communities (EC and EU, 1987-1995). Light will be shed on the negotiations and agreements with Brussels (1993-1994) and on the implementation of the EU entry (1994-1995). Austria is also presented as a member of the EU until the Treaty of Lisbon came into force (1995-2009). The reader will get backgrounds of the country’s long road to Europe which offers different developments of a story of ambivalence and complexity. The question will also be raised and answered how "Europe" became a controversial issue of domestic policies and national identity. A final assessment will sum up the main aspects. An annex with an edition of 100 documents, many of which new, a bibliography and a chronology provide additional and expanded information.

Free Download Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGPQQR1 | 2023 | 15 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 448 MB
Author: Peter Sarris
Narrator: Mark Elstob
A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over nearly four decades of remarkable change, in an era of geopolitical threats, climate change, and plague. From the eastern Roman-or Byzantine-capital of Constantinople, Justinian’s armies reconquered lost territory in Africa, Italy, and Spain. But these military exploits, historian Peter Sarris shows, were just one part of a larger program of imperial renewal. From his dramatic overhaul of Roman law, to his lavish building projects, to his fierce persecution of dissenters from Orthodox Christianity, Justinian’s vigorous statecraft-and his energetic efforts at self-glorification-not only set the course of Byzantium but also laid the foundations for the world of the Middle Ages. Even as Justinian sought to recapture Rome’s past greatness, he paved the way for what would follow.

Free Download Andrew N. Palmer, "The Life of the Syrian Saint Barsauma: Eulogy of a Hero of the Resistance to the Council of Chalcedon (Volume 61) "
English | ISBN: 0520304179 | 2020 | 156 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Andrew N. Palmer’s vivid translation of the Syriac Life of Barsauma opens a fascinating window onto the ancient Middle East, seen through the life and actions of one of its most dramatic and ambiguous characters: the monk Barsauma, ascetic hero to some, religious terrorist to others. The Life takes us into the eye of the storm that raged around Christian attempts to define the nature of Christ in the great Council of Chalcedon, the effect of which was to split the growing Church irrevocably, with the Oriental Orthodox on one side and Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic on the other. Previously known only in extracts, this ancient text is now finally brought to readers in its entirety, casting dramatic new light on the relations among pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Holy Land and on the role of religious violence, real or imagined, in the mental world of a Middle East as shot through with conflict as it is today.

Free Download Bernard Frechtman, "Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr"
English | 2012 | pages: 640 | ISBN: 0816677603 | PDF | 38,6 mb
Saint Genet is Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic biography of Jean Genet-thief, convict, and great artist-a character of almost legendary proportions whose influence grows stronger with time. Bringing together two of the century’s greatest minds and artists, Saint Genet is at once a compelling psychological portrait, masterpiece of literary criticism, and one of Sartre’s most personal and inspired philosophical creations.

Free Download Alain Guédé, Gilda M. Roberts, "Monsieur de Saint-George: Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary: A Legendary Life Rediscovered"
English | 2003 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0312309279 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
The first full biography of one of the greatest figures of eighteenth-century Europe, known in his time as the "Black Mozart"

Free Download Thomas Cahill, "A Saint on Death Row: How a Forgotten Child Became a Man and Changed a World"
English | 2010 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 0767926463, 0385520190 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes the absorbing, heartbreaking tale of the hard life and tragic death of Dominique Green-wrongly accused, then executed in Huntsville, Texas-and shines a light on our racist and deeply flawed criminal justice system.