Tag: Struggle

Free Download John Shea, "Macedonia and Greece: The Struggle to Define a New Balkan Nation"
English | ISBN: 0786437677 | 2008 | 429 pages | PDF | 16 MB
With the breakup of the former Yugoslavia and a pending NATO membership bid, an old conflict between Greece and Macedonia has taken on added significance for the international community. Greece has vehemently argued, particularly in the West, that the name Macedonia was in fact Greek and that its use by this new nation in the Balkans portended Macedonia’s expansionist ambitions. The Macedonians bitterly disputed this, noting that Alexander the Great was a Macedonian, and adducing many other fascinating and rational arguments.

Free Download Richard Buel, "America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic"
English | ISBN: 1403962383 | 2005 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Many people would be surprised to learn that the struggle between Thomas Jefferson’s Republican Party and Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party defined-and jeopardized-the political life of the early American republic. America on the Brink looks at why the Federalists, who worked so hard to consolidate the federal government before 1800, went to great lengths to subvert it after Jefferson’s election. In addition to taking the side of the British in the diplomatic dance before the war, the Federalists did everything they could to impede the prosecution of the war, even threatening the Madison Administration with a separate peace for New England in 1814. Readers fascinated by the world of the Founding Fathers will come away from this riveting account with a new appreciation for how close the new nation came to falling apart almost fifty years before the Civil War.

Free Download Churchill, the Liberal Reformer: The Struggle for a Modern Home Office by Duncan Marlor
English | June 5, 2024 | ISBN: 1399051326 | 224 pages | PDF | 5.03 Mb
Winston Churchill is handed down the generations, reinvented in the process to suit current controversies. He has been many things: presently a talisman of the political right, a war-hero of conservative outlook who saved his country; on the left, he is a reactionary imperialist, a warmongering oppressor of the workers. Both sides would be surprised by a time trip to the sensation-filled years of 1910 and 1911. They would find a modernist progressive, cordially loathed by the Tories, carrying through programmes of social reform and making the prison system more humane: declaring to Parliament that even convicted offenders have rights and that how a state treats them determines the level of its civilisation. A long-serving Permanent Under-Secretary at the Home Office reckoned that Churchill’s policies (which his successors continued) halved the prison population. During the last third of the twentieth century and into the next, rehabilitation has gone into reverse. Prison numbers have soared, as the punitive approach has reasserted itself, now laced with political populism. This book looks at that story in the context of the paradoxical career of Churchill the Liberal Reformer.

Free Download Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate"
English | ISBN: 1472864336 | 2024 | 352 pages | PDF | 37 MB
A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1,300 years of the Muslim caliphate.

Free Download Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation edited by Jessica Anderson, Aline Batarseh, Yosra El Gazzar
English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 9798888902509, ASIN: B0CT8C7SMB | True EPUB | 392 pages | 86.4 MB
This striking collection of more than 200 full-color infographics is a vivid portrait of Israeli settler colonialism and the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

Free Download Financial Literacy for All: Disrupting Struggle, Advancing Financial Freedom, and Building a New American Middle Class by John Hope Bryant
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1394209029 | 224 pages | PDF | 0.99 Mb
A new approach to understanding money and achieving financial fulfillment

Free Download Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6P8V4W9 | 2024 | 7 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Omar Barghouti
Narrator: Shawn K. Jain
THIRTY YEARS ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated South Africa as a pariah state and heralded the end of apartheid. Now, as awareness of the apartheid nature of the State of Israel continues to grow, Omar Barghouti, founding member of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, presents a renewed call to action. Aimed at forcing the State of Israel to uphold international law and universal human rights for the Palestinian people, here is a manifesto for change.

Free Download The Immutable Laws of Mankind: The Struggle For Universal Human Rights By Alastair Davidson (auth.)
2012 | 522 Pages | ISBN: 9400741820 | PDF | 3 MB
The key question for the history of universal human rights is why it took so long for them to become established as law. The main theme of this book is that the attainment of universal human rights required heroic struggle, first by individuals and then by ever-increasing numbers of people who supported those views against the major historical trends. Universal human rights are won from a hostile majority by outsiders. The chapters in the book describe the milestones in that struggle. The history presented in this book shows that, in most places at most times, even today, for concrete material reasons a great many people oppose the notion that all individuals have equal rights. The dominant history since the 1600s has been that of a mass struggle for the national-democratic state. This book argues that this struggle for national rights has been practically and logically contradictory with the struggle for universal rights. It would only be otherwise if there were free migration and access to citizenship on demand by anybody. This has never been the case. Rather than drawing only on European sources and being limited to major literary figures, this book is written from the Gramscian perspective that ideas mean little until they are taken up as mass ideologies. It draws on sources from Asia and America and on knowledge about mass attitudes, globally and throughout history.

Free Download Heide Castañeda, "Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1503607917, 1503607216 | PDF | pages: 280 | 2.9 mb
Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America―the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castañeda reveals the trauma, distress, and inequalities that occur daily, alongside the stratification of particular family members’ access to resources like education, employment, and health care. She also paints a vivid picture of the resilience, resistance, creative responses, and solidarity between parents and children, siblings, and other kin.

Free Download Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall by Anna Lvovsky
English | May 28, 2021 | ISBN: 022676978X | 345 pages | PDF | 3.94 Mb
In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors.