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Free Download Chris Stray, "Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge: Curriculum, Culture and Community"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0906014239 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 4.7 mb
Eight essays from a Cambridge seminar held in 1996. Contributors are: Christopher Stray (The First Century of the Classical Tripos, 1822-1922); Robert Todd (Henry Sidgwick and the Study of Ancient Philosophy: The Decisive Years 1866-69); Pat Easterling (The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play); Claire Breay (Women and the Classical Tripos 1869-1914); Judith Raphaely (Nothing but gibberish and shibboleths: the compulsory Greek debates 1870-1919); Mary Beard (The Invention of ‘Group D’: An Archaeology of the Classical Tripos 1879-1984); David Gill (Winifred Lamb and the Fitzwilliam Museum); John Crook and Joyce Reynolds (The Cambridge Greek and Latin Book Club).

Free Download Ireland : the 20th century By Charles Townshend
1999 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0340663359 | PDF | 12 MB
Ireland in the twentieth century has had a very different history from that of most other western European countries. The two most profound shocks of the century, the world wars, met Ireland obliquely rather than head-on. Partition and civil war, on the other hand, were embittering experiences felt at first hand, the legacies of which snake their course through its subsequent history. How did the Irish ‘revolution’ come about and what was its nature? How did Ulster end up with the rich irony of being the only part of Ireland to embrace Home Rule? How well did the new Republic’s promise of freedom assuage the painful reality, until the 1960s, of low economic growth and persistent emigration? Why was the Northern Ireland state unable or unwilling to conciliate its minority Catholic population? These are among the many issues addressed in Charles Townshend’s masterful new account, one in which, to use the words of a reviewer of an earlier work of his, ‘outstanding coolness, judiciousness and flair’ combine with penetrating powers of analysis. It is the first account to cover the whole of Ireland, north and south, from the origins of Sinn Fein at the beginning of the century to the Stormont agreement at the end.

Free Download Translation and Interpreting in the 20th Century: Focus on German By Wolfram Wilss
1999 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 9027216320 | PDF | 2 MB
This book provides a historical survey of the unfolding of translation and interpreting (language mediation) in the 20th century with special reference to the German-speaking area. It is based first, on extensive archive research in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, second, on a large number of interviews with experts in the field of language mediation, and third, on the author’s observations and experiences in the field of translation practice, translation teaching, and translation studies between 1950-1995. A specific feature of the book is the description of the social role of the language mediator through the prisms of communicative targets and technological developments and to determine his function as that of an indispensable bridge-builder between the members of differing linguistic and cultural communities.Historically, it distinguishes between three main phases, the period from 1900 to 1919 with the dominance of French as lingua franca in international communication, the period from 1919 to 1945, which is characterized by English-French bilingualism, and the period from 1945 to approximately 1990 with its massive trend toward multilingualism and the development of language mediation into a "translation industry." The book continues with chapters on the implications of globalization, specialization and automaticization for international communication and it closes with reflections on future prospects for the profession in a knowledge society, both from a practical and a pedagogical viewpoint.

Free Download James Dowthwaite, "Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language: Faith with the Word "
English | ISBN: 0367262746 | 2019 | 236 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Ezra Pound is one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, a writer whose poetry is particularly notable for the intensity of its linguistic qualities. Indeed, from the principles of Imagism to the polyphony of his Cantos, Pound is central to our conception of modernism’s relationship with language. This volume explores the development of Pound’s understanding of language in the context of twentieth-century linguistics and the philosophy of language. It draws on largely unpublished archival material in order to provide a broadly chronological account of the development of Pound’s views and their relation to both his own poetry and to modernist writing as a whole. Beginning with Pound’s contentious relationship with philology and his antagonism towards academia, the book traces continuities and shifts across Pound’s career, culminating in a discussion of the centrality of language to the conception of his Cantos. While it contains discussions around significant figures in twentieth-century linguistic thought, such as Ferdinand de Saussure and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the book attempts to recover the work of theorists such as Leonard Bloomfield, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and C.K. Ogden, figures who were once central to modernism, but who have largely been pushed to the periphery of modernist studies. The picture of Pound that emerges is a figure whose understanding of language is not only bound up with modernist approaches to anthropology, politics, and philosophy, but which calls for a new understanding of modernism’s relationship to each.

Free Download Silvio Pons, "A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism"
English | ISBN: 0691135851 | 2010 | 960 pages | PDF | 8 MB
An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the world

Free Download The U.S. Labor Movement in the 20th and Early 21st Century: A Critical Analysis
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031300769 | 279 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book provides a critical analysis of the labor movement in the United States in the 20th and early 21st century. It explores ideological trends within the labor movement and its conflicts with capital and the state. It identifies class-collaborationism between the conservative labor bureaucracy and the capitalist class as the primary source of U.S. labor’s precariousness and fragility. It argues that the U.S. labor movement at its most radical and militant stage was an effective force for change against the power structure in the early 20th century. At the opposite end, it also argues that today’s institutionalized labor movement led by the AFL-CIO hinders labor’s historic struggle against capital and aids in the maintenance of the existing capitalist order. The book concludes by assessing the prospects for the future development of militant working-class activism and identifies essential components of an emerging radical labor movement that is capable of effectively challenging the capitalist system in the period ahead.