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April 26, 2024

Taiwan A Contested Democracy Under Threat

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Free Download Jonathan Sullivan, "Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat "
English | ISBN: 1788216717 | 2024 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
As a top 20 global economy and tech powerhouse, a liberal democracy on the frontline of autocratic pressure and a pivotal component in the free and open Indo-Pacific, the future security of Taiwan has enormous ramifications for today’s global order.

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January 10, 2024

Contested Territory Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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Free Download Contested Territory: Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds) by Heidi V. Scott
English | October 15, 2009 | ISBN: 0268041318 | True PDF | 272 pages | 3.8 MB
Landscape is never static, but changes continuously when seen in relation to human occupation, movement, labor, and discourse. Contested Territory explores the ways in which Peru’s early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their conquered subjects. It focuses on the role played by indigenous groups in shaping the Spanish experiences of landscapes, the diverse geographical images of Peru and ways in which these were constructed and contested, and what this can tell us about the nature of colonial relations in post-conquest Peru.

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January 5, 2024

Contested Pasts A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire

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Free Download Contested Pasts: A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire by Jennifer Finn
English | April 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 0472133039 | 245 pages | True PDF | 2.42 MB
Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, author Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of "universal history" in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus, combined with the Stoic philosophy of determinism present in authors like Plutarch and Arrian. Finn endeavors to determine the ways in which Roman authors manipulated narratives about Alexander’s campaigns-and even other significant events in Mediterranean history-to artificially construct a past to which the Romans could attach themselves as a natural teleological culmination.

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December 25, 2023

Contested Learning in Welfare Work A Study of Mind, Political Economy, and the Labour Process

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Free Download Contested Learning in Welfare Work: A Study of Mind, Political Economy, and the Labour Process (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Peter H. Sawchuk
English | June 17, 2013 | ISBN: 1107034671 | 392 pages | PDF | 8.65 Mb
Drawing on the field of cultural historical psychology and the sociologies of skill and labour process, Contested Learning in Welfare Work offers a detailed account of the learning lives of state welfare workers in Canada as they cope, accommodate, resist, and flounder in times of heightened austerity. Documented through in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis, Peter Sawchuk shows how the labour process changes workers, and how workers change the labour process, under the pressures of intensified economic conditions, new technologies, changing relations of space and time, and a high-tech version of Taylorism. Sawchuk traces these experiences over a seven-year period that includes major work reorganization and the recent economic downturn. His analysis examines the dynamics between notions of de-skilling, re-skilling, and up-skilling, as workers negotiate occupational learning and changing identities.

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