Tag: West

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,

Free Download Paolo Ercolani, Santiago Zabala, "The West Removed: Economics, Democracy, Freedom: A Counter-history of Our Civilization"
English | 2016 | pages: 86 | ISBN: 8869770672 | PDF | 0,5 mb
The seven chapters of this book cover a variety of concepts (liberalism, freedom, Marxism) and classic thinkers (Mill, Marx, Hayek, Popper) in order to disclose several myths we’ve become accustomed to taking for granted in the West. It posits that exploration of these myths is crucial to understanding the essence of the West or, better, to seeing what has been "removed" from the West as the title of this book implies. What emerges is a rigorous and surprising counter-history of our civilization.

Free Download Pablo Mitchell, "West of Sex: Making Mexican America, 1900-1930"
English | ISBN: 0226532690 | 2012 | 151 pages | EPUB | 488 KB
Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In West of Sex, Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide the first coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century, and a truly revelatory look at sexual identity in the borderlands.

Free Download Jonathan Evison, "West of Here"
English | 2011 | pages: 486 | ISBN: 1565129520 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman he loves and start a family. Ethan’s obsession with a brighter future impels the damming of the mighty Elwha to harness its power and put Port Bonita on the map.

Free Download Ukraine At Any Price: A War Against The West
by Fazle Chowdhury
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0DCXSLP4X | 370 Pages | True ePUB | 0.47 MB

Free Download The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World by Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson
English | November 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1804296058 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 0.4 MB
At the heart of the fiercest international conflicts is the struggle for the future of globalization

Free Download Robert Elgie, "The Changing French Political System (West European Politics)"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0714680982 | EPUB | pages: 246 | 0.3 mb
Examining the nature of the Fifth Republic after its first 42 years, this study looks at the challenges posed by new parties and new expressions of political mobilization.

Free Download Rohan McWilliam, "London’s West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914"
English | 2020 | pages: 373 | ISBN: 019882341X | PDF | 7,0 mb
How did the West End of London become the world’s leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London’s West End, 1800-1914 is the first ever history of the area which has enthralled millions. The reader will discover the growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry. The area from the Strand to Oxford Street came to stand for sensation and vulgarity but also the promotion of high culture. The West End produced shows and fashions whose impact rippled outwards around the globe. During the nineteenth century, an area that serviced the needs of the aristocracy was opened up to a wider public whilst retaining the imprint of luxury and prestige.