Tag: Legacies

Free Download Alien Legacies
by Abrams, Nathan;Frame, Gregory;
English | 2023 | ISBN: ‎ 0197556027 | 281 pages | True PDF EPUB | 23.18 MB

Free Download Paul Gilbert, "The entangled legacies of empire: Race, finance and inequality"
English | ISBN: 1526163446 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB
More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today’s global economy. In defiance of those who claim that today’s capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and our lives.

Free Download Ruth Dudley Edwards, "The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic"
English | ISBN: 1786070731 | 2019 | 416 pages | EPUB | 1070 KB
On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of Dublin, the Seven were arrested, court-martialled and executed.

Free Download Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Audiobook)
English | February 18, 2020 | ASIN: B084BZMTJV | [email protected] kbps | 29h 5m | 796 MB
Author: Mary Fulbrook | Narrator: Christa Lewis
Mary Fulbrook’s encompassing book explores the lives of individuals across a full spectrum of suffering and guilt, each one capturing one small part of the greater story. Using "reckoning" in the widest possible sense to evoke how the consequences of violence have expanded almost infinitely through time. Fulbrook exposes the disjuncture between official myths about "dealing with the past" and the extent to which the vast majority of Nazi perpetrators evaded responsibility.
In the successor states to the Third Reich – East Germany, West Germany, and Austria – prosecution varied widely. Communist East Germany pursued Nazi criminals and handed down severe sentences; West Germany, caught between facing up to the past and seeking to draw a line under it, tended toward selective justice and reintegration of former Nazis; and Austria made nearly no reckoning at all until the mid-1980s, when news broke about Austrian presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim’s past. The continuing battle with the legacies of Nazism in the private sphere was often at odds with public remembrance and memorials.

Places of Memory and Legacies in an Age of Insecurities and Globalization by Gerry O’Reilly
English | EPUB | 2020 | 540 Pages | ISBN : 3030609812 | 164.5 MB
In this book, practitioners and students discover perspectives on landscape, place, heritage, memory, emotions and geopolitics intertwined in evolving citizenship and democratization debates. This volume shows how memorialization can contribute to wider inclusive interpretations of history, tourism and human rights promoted by the European Project. It’s geographies of memories can foster cooperation as witnessed throughout Europe during the 2014-18 WWI commemorations.

The Other Windrush: Legacies of Indenture in Britain’s Caribbean Empire By Maria del Pilar Kaladeen (editor), David Dabydeen (editor)
2021 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0745343554 | PDF | 4 MB
Between the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from the Caribbean. In the aftermath of the 2018 Windrush Scandal, the story of the Windrush Generation is more widely known than ever. But is it the whole story? Through a series of biographical essays, poems and articles, The Other Windrush shines a light on the hidden history of a ‘minority within a minority’: Indian and Chinese Caribbean migrants – often the descendants of indentured labourers – who were the ‘invisible passengers’ of the Windrush generation. Both highlighting the diversity of their lives and cultural backgrounds, and delving into the largely forgotten history of the system of indenture in the British Caribbean, The Other Windrush makes a unique addition to the literature on migration and the British Empire.

Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent By Tamara Caraus (editor), Camil Alexandru Parvu (editor)
2014 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1138783420 | PDF | 3 MB
The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are individual human beings, not states or particular forms of human associations. Nevertheless, the attempts to ground a political theory on overarching universal principles is in contradiction with the plurality of social, cultural, political, religious interpretative standpoints in the contemporary world. Is dissent cosmopolitan? Is there a legacy of dissent for a theory of cosmopolitanism? This book is a comparative, historical analysis of dissident thought and practice for contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism. Divided into two parts, the editors and contributors explore the contribution of ‘paradigmatic’ dissidents like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Havel, Sakharov, Mandela, Liu Xiaobo, Aung San Suu Kyi towards a post-universalist cosmopolitan theory. Part Two examines the inherent cosmopolitanism of the seemingly ‘peripheral’ dissent of contemporary forms of protests, resistance, direct action like NO TAV movement and Occupy Wall Street. A timely book which allows for a much needed new engagement in contemporary debates of cosmopolitanism, we learn how practical resistance to totalizing/hegemonic claims is generated, and how dissident thinking might contribute to new, enriched ways of conceiving the non-totalizing foundations of cosmopolitanism. An innovative look at what lessons can scholars of cosmopolitanism learn from dissent/dissident movements, and what the role of dissent in cosmopolitan democracy could be.

The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures By Nicholas Saul (editor), Simon J. James (editor)
2011 | 348 Pages | ISBN: 9042033975 | PDF | 2 MB
Daniel Dennett famously claimed for Darwinian theory the status of universal solvent: the totalising theory of theories, even of theories of literature. Yet only a few writers and critics have followed his view. This volume asks why. It examines both evolution in literature, and the evolution of literature. It looks at literary representations of Darwinism both historically and synchronically, at how a theory of literature might be derived from evolutionary theory, and indeed how evolution as a process might be regarded as itself aesthetic. It complements these theoretical and historical dimensions of enquiry with the comparative dimension. It asks in short: What have been the representations of Darwinian evolutionary theory in literature since the late nineteenth century? What are the leading paradigms in theory and in literature for renovating the evolutionary model? What were, and are, the differences in British, French, German paradigms of literary Darwinian reception? How, if at all, did Darwinian modes of thought hybridise across national borders? Last, but not least: What is the future of the Darwinian mode?

Abdi Nazemian, "The Chandler Legacies"
English | ISBN: 006303932X | 2022 | 336 pages | EPUB | 1096 KB
From the Stonewall Honor-winning author of Like a Love Story comes a revelatory novel about the enclosed world of privilege and silence at an elite boarding school and the unlikely group of friends who dare to challenge the status quo through their writing. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Kathleen Glasgow, and Jandy Nelson, with crossover appeal for readers of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep.

Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989 By Steven Laurence Kaplan
1995 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 0801427185 | PDF | 91 MB
The interpretation of the French Revolution has long been the most contentious issue in French history. This fascinating account of the controversies surrounding the Revolution’s 200th anniversary will be indispensable for all who wish to understand both France’s future and its past.