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Free Download The gods left first : imperial collapse and the repatriation of Japanese from northeast Asia, 1945-56 By Barshay, Andrew E
2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0520276159 | EPUB | 6 MB
At the time of Japan’s surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destroyed, after years of warfare and Allied bombing campaigns. Among them were more than 600,000 soldiers of Japan’s army in Manchuria, who had surrendered to the Red Army only to be transported to Soviet labor camps, mainly in Siberia. Held for between two and four years, and some far longer, amid forced labor and reeducation campaigns, they waited for return, never knowing when or if it would come. Drawing on a wide range of memoirs, art, poetry, and contemporary records, The Gods Left First reconstructs their experience of captivity, return, and encounter with a postwar Japan that now seemed as alien as it had once been familiar. In a broader sense, this study is a meditation on the meaning of survival for Japan’s continental repatriates, showing that their memories of involvement in Japan’s imperial project were both a burden and the basis for a new way of life.

Free Download John Phillip Santos, "Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation"
English | 2000 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0140292020, 0670868086 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
Finalist for the National Book Award!In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people. The story unfolds through a pageant of unforgettable family figures: from Madrina-touched with epilepsy and prophecy ever since, as a girl, she saw a dying soul leave its body-to Teofilo, who was kidnapped as an infant and raised by the Kikapu Indians of Northern Mexico. At the heart of the book is Santos’ search for the meaning of his grandfather’s suicide in San Antonio, Texas, in 1939. Part treasury of the elders, part elegy, part personal odyssey, this is an immigration tale and a haunting family story that offers a rich, magical view of Mexican-American culture.

Free Download Abby W. Schachter, "No Child Left Alone: Getting the Government Out of Parenting"
English | 2016 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 1594038619 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Uncle Sam is the worst helicopter parent in America.

Free Download Christopher H. Johnson, "Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 "
English | ISBN: 0814344836 | 2018 | 336 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings on the Dodge Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic. As the UAW’s General Council, he wrote the union’s constitution in 1939, a model of democratic thinking. Sugar worked with George Addes, UAW Secretary-Treasurer, to nurture rank-and-file power. A founder of the National Lawyers’ Guild, Sugar also served as a member of Detroit’s Common Council at the head of a UAW "labor" ticket.

Free Download Forgotten engagements : women, literature and the Left in 1930s France By Kershaw, Angela
2007 | 306 Pages | ISBN: 9042021691 | PDF | 2 MB
This study is the first to examine the contribution made by women writers to politically committed literature in 1930s France. Its purpose is to bring to light the work of female authors of left-wing fiction whose novels are comparable to those of well-known male practitioners of ‘littérature engagée’. It analyses the novels of Madeleine Pelletier, Simone Téry, Edith Thomas, Henriette Valet and Louise Weiss in the context of the inter-war models of committed literature in relation to which they were produced. Consideration of this body of fictional texts, not previously brought together by literary historians, shows how women were able to relate to fiction and to politics in inter-war France. Situating the novels in relation to their social, historical, literary and political environment, the book makes an important contribution to the literary and cultural history of twentieth century France. The analysis of inter-war political writing by women calls into question the usual criteria against which women’s writing tends to be evaluated by feminist scholarship. The book will appeal to readers with an interest in women’s writing, political writing, and the development of French literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Women, Politics and Fiction in 1930s France; Gender and Genre: The Political Novel; Fictional Representations of Female Commitment; Politics and Female Sexuality; Politics and the Maternal Body; Conclusion Bibliography Index

Free Download Nicolas Sigoillot, "Entryism and the Revolutionary Socialist Left in Britain "
English | ISBN: 1032547995 | 2023 | 260 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
This book examines entryism in the context of the revolutionary socialist left in Britain, from the inception of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920 to the departure of Militant from the Labour Party in 1992.

Free Download Todd Wolfson, "Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left"
English | 2014 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0252080386, 0252038843 | EPUB | 2,1 mb
Digital Rebellion examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements.

Free Download Kathlene McDonald, "Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture"
English | 2014 | pages: 146 | ISBN: 1628460660, 1617033022 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
This book traces the development of a Left feminist consciousness as women became more actively involved in the American Left during and immediately following World War II. McDonald argues that women writers on the Left drew on the rhetoric of antifascism to critique the cultural and ideological aspects of women’s oppression. In Left journals during World War II, women writers outlined the dangers of fascist control for women and argued that the fight against fascism must also be about ending women’s oppression. After World War II, women writers continued to use this antifascist framework to call attention to the ways in which the emerging domestic ideology in the United States bore a frightening resemblance to the fascist repression of women in Nazi Germany.

Free Download Ricky Megee and Greg McLean, "Left for Dead: How I Survived 71 Days in the Outback"
English | 2012 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 1459605055 | PDF | 11,7 mb
No shoes, no vehicle, no food, no water and no idea. I’d always been one of those blokes who ragged on people who found themselves lost in the desert. Now I was one of those people. It was harsh, desolate country for a man all alone in bare feet. Nevertheless, I started to walk. And walk. The more I walked, I figured, the less distance I’d have to travel to get found. It was faulty logic, but it was the best I could come up with. ‘In April 2006 the news broke of an amazing feat of survival by a white man in one of the most inhospitable areas of Australia. Ricky Megee was found sheltering by a dam on a remote cattle property in the Northern Territory. After being abducted on the Buntine Highway then left for dead, Ricky had walked for ten days in bare feet through unforgiving terrain in blistering heat. Stumbling upon a dam, he set up camp there and survived for almost three months on leeches, grasshoppers, frogs and plants, losing 60 kilograms in the process .In Left for Dead, Ricky Megee gives a full and frank account of his abduction, survival and extraordinary rescue. Vividly told, it’s a gripping and yet inspiring story of how one man endures a terrible ordeal and lives to tell the tale.

Free Download Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany By Victor Grossman; Mark Solomon
2003 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 1558493859 | PDF | 9 MB
What could possibly impel a relatively privileged twenty-four-year-old American-serving in the U.S. Army in Germany in 1952-to swim across the Danube River to what was then referred to as the Soviet Zone? How are we to understand his decision to forsake the land of his birth and build a new life in the still young German Democratic Republic? These are the questions at the core of this memoir by Victor Grossman, who was born Stephen Wechsler but changed his name after defecting to the GDR. A child of the Depression, Grossman witnessed firsthand the dislocations wrought by the collapse of the U.S. economy during the 1930s. Widespread unemployment and poverty, CIO sit-down strikes, and the fight to save Republican Spain from fascism-all made an indelible impression as he grew up in an environment that nurtured a commitment to left-wing causes. He continued his involvement with communist activities as a student at Harvard in the late 1940s and after graduation, when he took jobs in two factories in Buffalo, New York, and tried to organize their workers. Fleeing McCarthyite America and potential prosecution, Grossman worked in the GDR with other Western defectors and eventually became, as he notes, the "only person in the world to attend Harvard and Karl Marx universities." Later, he was able to establish himself as a freelance journalist, lecturer, and author. Traveling throughout East Germany, he evaluated the failures as well as the successes of the GDR’s "socialist experiment." He also recorded his experiences, observations, and judgments of life in East Berlin after reunification, which failed to bring about the post-Communist paradise so many had expected. Written with humor as well as candor, Crossing the River provides a rare look at the Cold War from the other side of the ideological divide. Mark Solomon, a distinguished historian of the American left, provides a historical afterword that places Grossman’s experiences in a larger Cold War context.