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Free Download Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital by David Browne
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0306827638 | 400 pages | PDF | 27 Mb
***ARolling StoneBest Music Book of 2024***

Free Download Anne-Christine Trémon, "From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China "
English | ISBN: 1800739001 | 2023 | 284 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents. Graduated provision is the delivery of public goods informed by the teleological ideology of urbanization, and by neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and has been employed as an answer to the challenges of making public goods, such as welfare provisions, public parks, education, and senior care, equally accessible to all in recently urbanized communities.

Free Download The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-ae, translated by Anton Hur
English | August 18, 2023 | ISBN: 1915829054 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 1.4 MB
Kang Kyeong-ae (1906-1944), one of Korea’s great modern authors, wrote her stories during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Kang’s work is remarkable for its rejection of colonialism, patriarchy, and ethnic nationalism during a period when such views were truly radical and dangerous.

Free Download John Robb, "The Early Mediterranean Village: Agency, Material Culture, and Social Change in Neolithic Italy"
English | 2007 | pages: 408 | ISBN: 0521842417 | PDF | 3,9 mb
What was daily life like in Italy between 6000 and 3500 BC? In this book, John Robb brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy and surrounding regions (Sicily and Malta). Exploring how the routines of daily life structured social relations and human experience during this period, Robb provides a detailed analysis of how people built houses, buried their dead, made and shared a distinctive cuisine, and made the pots and stone tools that archaeologists find.

Free Download The Village of Ben Suc (New York Review Books Classics) by Jonathan Schell
English | November 26, 2024 | ISBN: 1681378493 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 1.1 MB
With a new introduction by Wallace Shawn, a classic work of war reportage that describes, with unblinking vision, the systematic leveling of a Vietnamese village by American troops.

Free Download Village Voices: A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop, Paris, 1982-2012 by Odile Hellier
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 1644213796 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 36.8 MB
A celebration of the legacy of the Village Voice bookshop in Paris, founded by Odile Hellier in 1982-a hub of social life and a refuge for artists, writers, and anglophone literary life for over three decades until it closed in 2012.

Free Download Tamara Jacka, "Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China"
English | ISBN: 1760466417 | 2024 | 314 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 9 MB
Ginkgo Village provides an original and powerfully intimate bottom-up perspective on China’s recent tumultuous history. Drawing on ethnographic and life-history research, the book takes readers deep into a village in a mountainous region of central-eastern China known as Eyuwan. In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, villagers in this region experienced terrible trauma and far-reaching socio-economic and political change. In the civil war (1927-1949), they were slaughtered in fighting between Nationalist and Communist forces. During the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), they suffered appalling famine. Since the 1990s, mass labour outmigration has lifted local villagers out of poverty and fuelled major transformations in their circumstances and practices, social and family relationships, and values and aspirations.

Free Download Keeping the Peace in the Village: Conflict and Peacemaking in Germany, 1650-1750 (Studies in German History) by Marc R. Forster
English | May 26, 2024 | ISBN: 0198898479 | 240 pages | MOBI | 1.40 Mb
Keeping the Peace in the Village is a study of how rural society evolved in the century after 1650. Based on extensive research in German archives, particularly in local court records, the book examines how rural people sought peace in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War. An understandable desire for peace and order co-existed with the reality of day-to-day conflicts common to any face-to-face community. An important consequence of the tension between conflict and the desire for peace was that people increasingly used local courts to help in resolving conflicts.

Free Download Huaiyin Li, "Village Governance in North China: 1875-1936"
English | 2005 | pages: 340 | ISBN: 0804750912 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author’s interpretation of village/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of "state making" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new process of political legitimization.

Free Download Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital by David Browne
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0306827638 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 23.7 MB
The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers