Tag: Struggle

Free Download The Struggle for Taiwan: A History, UK Edition by Sulmaan Wasif Khan
English | May 14th, 2024 | ISBN: 0241674859 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 5.61 MB
A gripping account of the past and future of Taiwan

Free Download Thomas C. Holt, "The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights"
English | ISBN: 0197525792 | 2021 | 176 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For the general public, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle.

Free Download Anthony Winson, "The Industrial Diet: The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating"
English | ISBN: 1479862797 | 2013 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
"This is a hugely informative book, stocked full of careful analysis."-Amy Best, Associate Professor of Sociology, George Mason University

Free Download Dr. Anne-Linda Amira Augustin, "South Yemen’s Independence Struggle: Generations of Resistance"
English | ISBN: 1649031084 | 2021 | 326 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A bold firsthand account of one of the persistent Arab uprisings, in Yemen

Free Download Victoria W. Wolcott, "Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0812223284 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 3.1 mb
Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amusement parks, teenagers congregated at forbidden swimming pools, and church groups picnicked at white-only parks. But too often white mobs attacked those who dared to transgress racial norms. In Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters, Victoria W. Wolcott tells the story of this battle for access to leisure space in cities all over the United States.

Free Download On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle by Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad
English | July 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1620978571 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 1.90 MB
An intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire

Free Download Myke Cole, "Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World"
English | ISBN: 1472828429 | 2018 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder, and with overlapping shields, they presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy. It was the phalanx that allowed Greece to become the dominant power in the Western world. That is, until the Romans developed the legion and cracked the phalanx.

Free Download Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871 by Jeremy Black
English | September 6, 2011 | ISBN: 0253356601 | 470 pages | PDF | 5.10 Mb
Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain accepted American mastery in North America. In this wide-ranging narrative, Black makes clear that the process by which America gained supremacy was far from inevitable. The story Black tells is one of conflict, diplomacy, geopolitics, and politics. The eventual result was the creation of a United States of America that stretched from Atlantic to Pacific and dominated North America. The gradual withdrawal of France and Spain, the British accommodation to the expanding U.S. reality, the impact of the American Civil War, and the subjugation of Native peoples, are all carefully drawn out. Black emphasizes contingency not Manifest Destiny, and reconceptualizes American exceptionalism to take note of the pressures and impact of international competition.

Free Download Dr Frank Javier Garcia Berumen, "Edward R. Roybal: The Mexican American Struggle for Political Empowerment"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0866240101 | EPUB | pages: 424 | 2.1 mb
"Edward R. Roybal: The Mexican American Struggle for Political Empowerment" showcases Roybal’s accomplishments as a leader in the political struggles of his time and inspires us all to work for the betterment of our communities.

Free Download Anderson Bean, "Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis "
English | ISBN: 179364084X | 2022 | 172 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 5 MB
Since 2006, Venezuela has witnessed an explosion of different forms of popular power and participatory democracy. Over 47,000 grassroots neighborhood-based communal councils and 3,000 communes have been constructed. In Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Anderson Bean offers a critical analysis of these experiments in popular and workers’ power and their potential for societal transformation within and beyond Venezuela. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Bean demonstrates how workers and peasants, through networks of popular power, exercise agency over their own development while facing challenges from the capitalist state. Most importantly, this book connects with the far-reaching implications that the communal movement in Venezuela has for building a society responsive more to the needs of ordinary people than to the desires of the elites.