Tag: Barricades

Walls Travels Along the Barricades


Free Download Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello Di Cintio
English | January 1, 2012 | ISBN: 0864926634, 086492917X | True EPUB | 288 pages | 0.7 MB
In this ambitious blend of travel and reportage, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world’s most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire and answer the question: What does it mean to live against the walls? Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco’s desert wall. He meets with illegal Punjabi migrants who have circumvented the fencing around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He visits fenced-in villages in northeast India, walks Arizona’s migrant trails, and travels to Palestinian villages to witness the protests against Israel’s security barrier.

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Barricades and Banners The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry


Free Download Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Scott Ury
English | August 8, 2012 | ISBN: 0804763836 | True EPUB | 445 pages | 7.2 MB
This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe’s largest Jewish center at the time.

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