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Free Download Violet M. Johnson, "The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950"
English | 2006 | pages: 196 | ISBN: 0253347521 | PDF | 5,4 mb
This study of Boston’s West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British-held Caribbean who settled in Boston between 1900 and 1950. Describing their experience among Boston’s American-born blacks and in the context of the city’s immigrant history, the book charts new conceptual territory. The Other Black Bostonians explores the pre-migration background of the immigrants, work and housing, identity, culture and community, activism and social mobility. What emerges is a detailed picture of black immigrant life. Johnson’s work makes a contribution to the study of the black diaspora as it charts the history of this first wave of Caribbean immigrants.

Free Download James H Ellis, "Luminaries of Early West Barnstable: The Stories of a Cape Cod Village"
English | ISBN: 1540222845 | 2014 | 162 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
West Barnstable is unique among historic colonial Cape Cod hamlets. A quartet born in the little village in a fifty-six-year span in the eighteenth century marked this village on the map forever. James Otis Jr., the Patriot," led the intellectual revolution and helped shape American independence. His sister, Mercy Otis Warren, broke free of the defined roles for women of her time to become a significant political activist, dramatist, poet and historian. War hero John "Mad Jack" Percival rose to the highest rank in the U.S. Navy and saved the USS "Constitution "from the scrap heap before sailing it around the world. America’s magistrate Lemuel Shaw influenced the country from his seat as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Few villages shone so brightly for their size. Join author James H. Ellis as he traces the stories of West Barnstable’s luminaries and their profound village legacy."

Free Download Can Erimtan, "Ottomans Looking West?: The Origins of the Tulip Age and its Development in Modern Turkey "
English | 2008 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 1845114914 | PDF | 3,3 mb
The ""Tulip Age"", a concept that described the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s westward inclination in the eighteenth century, was an idea proposed by Ottoman historian Ahmed Refik in 1912. In the first reassessment of the origins of this concept, Can Erimtan argues the ""Tulip Age"" was an important template for various political and ideological concerns of early twentieth century Turkish governments. The concept is most reflective of the 1930s Republican leadership’s attempt to disengage Turkey’s population from its Islamic culture and past, stressing the virtues of progress, modernity and secularism. It was only the death of Atatürk in 1938 that precipitated a hesitant revival of Islam in Turkey’s public life and a state-sponsored re-invigoration of research into Turkey’s Ottoman past. In this exciting reassessment Erimtan shows us that the trope of the ""Tulip Age"" corresponds more to Turkish society’s desire to re-orientate itself to the Occident throughout the twentieth century rather than to early eighteenth-century Ottoman realities.

Free Download Wild West to Agile: Adventures in Software Development Evolution and Revolution by Jim Highsmith
English | May 18, 2023 | ISBN: 0137961006 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 7.87 Mb
Wild West to Agile: The evolution and revolution of software development, drawn from personal experience, from the Apollo moon mission to digital transformations.

Free Download John McBryde, "The Battle of West Point: Confederate Triumph at Ellis Bridge "
English | ISBN: 1609499875 | 2013 | 128 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Author John McBryde details the nuances of the Battle of West Point.

Free Download Dick Weindling, "Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek: West Hampstead’s Musical Heritage Remembered"
English | ISBN: 0750952873 | 2013 | 192 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The book explores the history of Decca Studios, where thousands of records were made between 1937 and 1980. Klooks Kleek was run next door from 1961 to 1970 in the Railway Hotel by Dick Jordan and Geoff Williams, who share their memories here. With artists including David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and The Moody Blues at Decca, and Ronnie Scott, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Rod Stewart and Stevie Wonder at Klooks, this book records a unique musical heritage. This is the first history of Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek, the famous R&B club. Containing more than fifty photographs,many of which have never before appeared in print, it will delight music lovers everywhere.

Free Download Riccardo Bavaj, "Germany and ‘The West’: The History of a Modern Concept"
English | ISBN: 1782385975 | 2015 | 328 pages | PDF | 980 KB
"The West" is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, "the West" became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as "Russia" and "the East," and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of "the West" sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.

Free Download Mary C. Waters, "Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities"
English | 2000 | pages: 432 | ISBN: 0674000676 | PDF | 1,5 mb
The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is considered a great success. Many of these adoptive citizens have prospered, including General Colin Powell. But Mary Waters tells a very different story about immigrants from the West Indies, especially their children.

Free Download Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Ronit Chacham
English | December 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 1590510992 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 6.30 MB
In a series of moving and provocative conversations, nine members of the Israeli Defense Force tell why they refused to serve in the West Bank and Gaza. The "Refuseniks" describe their risky moral decision against the background of what is perhaps the most volatile conflict in the world today: the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Their individual choices and their collective activism have generated intense debate in Israel and the international community, from the leading Israeli newspaper Ha’Aretz to a segment on 60 Minutes.

Free Download Yuiko Asaba, "Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism beyond the West "
English | ISBN: 082489569X | 2025 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Why do Japanese people love tango? Starting with this question, which the author frequently received while working as a tango violinist in Argentina, Tango in Japan reveals histories and ethnographies of tango in Japan dating back to its first introduction in the 1910s to the present day. While initially brought to Yokohama by North American tango dancers in 1914, tango’s immediate popularity in Japan quickly compelled many Japanese performers and writers to travel to Argentina in search of tango’s "origin" beginning in the 1920s. Many Japanese musicians, dancers, aficionados, and the wider public have, since then, approached tango as a new vehicle of expression, entertainment, and academic pursuit. The sounds of tango provided comfort and a sense of hope to many during the most turbulent years of the twentieth century, carving out distinctive characteristics of contemporary Japanese tango culture. Bypassing the West-East axis of understanding cultural transmission,