Tag: Nations

Free Download James David Parker, "An International Humanitarian Organisation: A United Nations of the People"
English | ISBN: 1443851973 | 2017 | 129 pages | PDF | 346 KB

Free Download John P. R. Eicher, "Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age "
English | ISBN: 1108486118 | 2020 | 356 pages | PDF | 6 MB
How do groups of people fashion shared identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites, one composed of voluntary migrants and the other of refugees, across four continents between 1870 and 1945, this transnational study explores how religious migrants engaged with the phenomenon of nationalism. John P. R. Eicher demonstrates how migrant groups harnessed the global spread of nationalism to secure practical objectives and create local mythologies. In doing so, he also reveals how governments and aid organizations used diasporic groups for their own purposes – and portraying such nomads as enemies or heroes in national and religious mythologies. By underscoring the importance of local and religious counter-stories that run in parallel to nationalist narratives, Exiled Among Nations helps us understand acts of resistance, flight, and diaspora in the modern world.

Free Download Jeremy C.A. Smith, "American Imaginaries: Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas "
English | ISBN: 1786609673 | 2022 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. In addition to providing a fresh perspective on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. The book also covers regions often underemphasized in histories of the hemisphere, such as Central America and the Caribbean.

Free Download Terry L. Anderson, "Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations"
English | ISBN: 1498525679 | 2016 | 328 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies by creating institutions that reward productivity and entrepreneurship and that establish tribal governments that are capable of providing a stable rule of law. The chapters in this volume document the involvement of indigenous people in market economies long before European contact, provide evidence on how the wealth of Indian Nations has been held hostage to bureaucratic red tape, and explains how their wealth can be unlocked through self-determination and sovereignty.

Free Download Stephen Morse, "Ranking Nations: The Value of Indicators and Indices?"
English | ISBN: 1800886306 | 2023 | 210 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This engaging book assesses the statistical need for using particular ranking systems to compare the status of nations. With an overarching focus on human development, environmental performance and corruption, it carefully maps out some of the main processes associated with the ranking of countries.

Free Download Adam LeBor, ""Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide"
English | 2006 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0300111711, Paperback | EPUB | 1,8 mb
From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This is evinced, author and journalist Adam LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most senior UN official in the field during the Yugoslav wars, in which he refused to authorize air strikes against the Serbs for fear they would "weaken" Milosevic. More recently, in 2003, urgent reports from UN officials in the Sudan detailing atrocities from Darfur were ignored for a year because they were politically inconvenient.

Free Download Mario Polèse, "The Wealth and Poverty of Cities: Why Nations Matter"
English | 2019 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0190053712 | PDF | 14,2 mb
That some cities are vibrant while others are in decline is starkly apparent. In The Wealth and Poverty of Cities, Mario Polèse argues that focusing on city attributes is too narrow. Cities do not control the basic conditions that determine their success or failure as sources of economic growth and well-being.

Free Download Schiller: National Poet-Poet of Nations: A Birmingham Symposium By Martin, Nicholas
2006 | 341 Pages | ISBN: 9042020032 | PDF | 2 MB
To mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller s death, leading scholars from Germany, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed to this volume of commemorative essays. These were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Birmingham in June 2005. The essays collected here shed important new light on Schiller s standing as a national and transnational figure, both in his own lifetime and in the two hundred years since his death. Issues explored include: aspects of Schiller s life and work which contributed to the creation of heroic and nationalist myths of the poet during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his activities as man of the theatre and publisher in his own, pre-national context; the (trans-)national dimensions of Schiller s poetic and dramatic achievement in their contemporary context and with reference to later appropriations of national(ist) elements in his work. The contributions to this volume illuminate Schiller s achievements as poet, playwright, thinker and historian, and bring acute insights to bear on both the history of his impact in a variety of contexts and his enduring importance as a point of cultural reference."

Free Download Harrison Brown, "China Among The Nations Of The Pacific"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0865312605, 0865312796 | EPUB | pages: 137 | 1.2 mb
On May 14, 1960, the East-West Center was officially created by the Congress of the United States. As a part of the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of this event, a symposium was held on May 19, 1980, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. The subject "China and the Nations of the Pacific" was selected because the theme for the anniversary year of the East-West Center had been established as "Building a Pacific Community." It has been suggested that international mechanisms for coming to grips with such interdependencies in the Pacific region as trade, investment, food, energy, and mineral commodities are inadequate. In response to such suggestions, hearings have been held in both houses of the Congress of the United States on the idea of a Pacific community. This symposium was organized as part of that general discussion. The contributors’ hope that the papers presented here will further stimulate thought and debate on the problems of the Pacific region.

Free Download Blood (First Nations Classics) by Tony Birch
English | May 30, 2023 | ISBN: 0702267880, ASIN: B0C1P7N91Z | True EPUB | 264 pages | 3.1 MB
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Blood is a coming-of-age story set on the back roads of Australia.