Tag: Peoples

Free Download Burke A. Hendrix, "Strategies of Justice: Aboriginal Peoples, Persistent Injustice, and the Ethics of Political Action "
English | ISBN: 0198833547 | 2019 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Political theorists often imagine themselves as political architects, asking what an ideal set of laws or social structures might look like. Yet persistent injustices can endure for decades or even centuries despite such ideal theorizing. In circumstances of this kind, it is essential for political theorists to think carefully about the political choices available to those who directly face such injustices and seek to change them.

Free Download Wolfram Brandes, "Peoples of the Apocalypse: Eschatological Beliefs and Political Scenarios"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 3110469499 | PDF | pages: 380 | 3.7 mb
This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Extensive lists of murderous end-time peoples, whether for good or evil, and those who merit salvation hold variably defined roles in end-time scenarios. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, the collected papers examine distinctive aspects represented by each religion’s approach as well as shared concepts.

Free Download Robert M. Carmack, "The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America: Their Societies, Cultures, and Histories"
English | ISBN: 1498558968 | 2017 | 154 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America, Robert Carmack focuses on K’iche’ natives of Guatemala, Masayan peoples of Nicaragua, and the native peoples of Buenos Aires and Costa Rica. Starting with Christopher Columbus’ proclaimed "discovery" of Central America, Carmack illustrates the Central American native peoples’ dramatic struggles for survival, native languages, and unique communities and states. Carmack draws on the fieldwork that he has conducted over the past fifty years to highlight the diversity of the Central American peoples, cultures, and histories, and to explain their significance relative to other native peoples of the world. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, and sociology

Free Download The Vikings
by Neil Price
English | 2023 | ISBN: 041534350X | 241 pages | True PDF | 14.48 MB

Free Download Nicholas Biddle, "Human Capital Development and Indigenous Peoples "
English | ISBN: 113849836X | 2018 | 128 pages | EPUB | 1295 KB
In all countries for which data is available, Indigenous peoples have lower rates of formal educational participation and attainment than their non-Indigenous counterparts. There are many structural reasons for this, but it may in part be related to the perceived relationship between the costs and benefits of education. Human Capital Development and Indigenous Peoples systematically applies a human capital approach to educational policy, to help understand the education and broader development outcomes of indigenous peoples.

Free Download Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia
by Clarke, Philip A.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1486315976 | 345 pages | True PDF | 31.12 MB

Free Download Sir Winston S. Churchill, "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition "
English | ISBN: 1350042943 | 2021 | 632 pages | EPUB | 1173 KB
‘This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues – its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country’s past.’ The Daily Telegraph

Free Download Joseph-Marie Degerando, "The Observation of Savage Peoples"
English | ISBN: 0520368800 | 2021 | 142 pages | EPUB | 731 KB
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.