Tag: Unmaking

Free Download Claudio Saunt, "Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family"
English | 2005 | pages: 313 | ISBN: 0195176316, 0195313100 | PDF | 2,7 mb
Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices-to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship-were often necessarily guided by the harsh economic realities imposed by the country’s racial hierarchy. Few families in American history embody this struggle to survive the pervasive onslaught of racism more than the Graysons.

Free Download The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) by Ned Blackhawk
English | April 25, 2023 | ISBN: 0300244053 | 616 pages | MOBI | 14 Mb
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Free Download Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CTN5HVJ2 | 2024 | 10 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: David Brock
Narrator: David Brock, Sean Patrick Hopkins
A blistering exposé of Clarence Thomas and the conservative regime of corruption that has usurped the Supreme Court-by a Democratic activist and former Republican political operative. Public confidence in the Supreme Court has plummeted to new lows in the last few years-and for good reason. In the past three decades, six conservative justices have gained a supermajority through questionable means: a dubious intervention in a presidential election, perjury during Senate testimony, and a GOP Senate Leader’s unethical blockade of a Supreme Court nomination. Behind this strategic dismantling of our Supreme Court is a vast, well-funded political machine-backed by the extreme right-wing Federalist Society, the notoriously secretive Catholic organization Opus Dei, and GOP megadonors operating from behind closed doors.

Free Download Hannah Gould, "When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan"
English | ISBN: 0226829014 | 2023 | 213 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 27 MB
Through an ethnographic study inside Japan’s Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials.

Free Download Alix Olson, "The Ends of Resistance: Making and Unmaking Democracy"
English | ISBN: 0231204981 | 2024 | 200 pages | PDF | 972 KB
Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to "resist." But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream media, trusting the science, putting up yard signs, buying the right products, and celebrating a "return to normal." How was "resistance" diluted, and where can we find alternative forms of resistance for present and future struggles?

Free Download The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D31Z3YQG | 2024 | 10 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Boyce Upholt
Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River-and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America. Over thousands of years, the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of Indigenous people who regarded "the great river" with awe and respect, adorning its banks with astonishing spiritual earthworks. But European settlers and American pioneers had a different vision: the river was a foe to conquer. In this landmark work of natural history, Boyce Upholt tells the epic story of human attempts to own and contain the Mississippi River, from Thomas Jefferson’s expansionist land hunger through today’s era of environmental concern. He reveals how an ambitious and sometimes contentious program of engineering-government-built levees, jetties, dikes, and dams-has not only damaged once-vibrant ecosystems, but may not work much longer, and explores how scientists are scrambling to restore what’s been lost. Rich and powerful, The Great River delivers a startling account of what happens when we try to fight against nature instead of acknowledging and embracing its power.

Free Download The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt
English | June 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 0393867870 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 23.60 MB
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River-and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America.

Free Download Omer Bartov, "Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past"
English | ISBN: 0300259964 | 2022 | 392 pages | PDF | 49 MB
The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II

Free Download Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley By Peter Guralnick
1999 | 784 Pages | ISBN: 0316332224 | EPUB | 5 MB
Careless Love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley’s last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick’s masterful two-part biography.Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick’s two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical art." This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis’ life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick’s status as one of the great biographers of our time.Beginning with Presley’s army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977, Careless Love chronicles the unravelling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis’ relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It’s a breathtaking revelatory drama that for the first time places the events of a too-often mistold tale in a fresh, believable, and understandable context.Elvis’ changes during these years form a tragic mystery that Careless Love unlocks for the first time. This is the quintessential American story, encompassing elements of race, class, wealth, sex, music, religion, and personal transformation. Written with grace, sensitivity, and passion, Careless Love is a unique contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the nature of success, giving us true insight at last into one of the most misunderstood public figures of our times.

Free Download Denys Gorbach, "The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City "
English | ISBN: 1805392980 | 2024 | 346 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 4 MB
Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with a demobilizing stance that condemns all political participation as corrupt. This contradictory attitude to politics defines the character of populist mass mobilizations that shook Ukraine in 2004 and 2014, as well as the electoral overhaul of 2019 and the popular response to the Russian invasion in 2022. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, the book focuses on the moral economy that constitutes the working class and structures its relations with other social groups.