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Latin America-European Union relations in the twenty-first century


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English | ISBN: 152613649X | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Latin America-European Union relations in the twenty-first century provides a valuable overview of transatlantic trade agreement negotiations and developments in the first decades of the twenty-first century. This edited collection examines key motivations behind trade agreements, traces the evolution of negotiations and explores some of the initial impacts of new generation trade agreements with the EU on South American countries. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of relations between these regions by contextualising relations and trade agendas, both in terms of domestic political and economic policies and broader global trends. It demonstrates the importance of a shift toward mega-regional trade agreements in the 2010s, particularly under the Obama administration in the United States, in shaping South American and European agendas for trade agreement negotiations and their outcomes.

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Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy A framework of EU foreign policy change


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English | ISBN: 1526155648 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book centralizes a set of questions: What happens to European foreign policy arrangements after a crisis hits? Is EU foreign policy changed as a consequence and if so, how and by whom exactly? And crucially: do things actually change?

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Burnside’s Boys The Union’s Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East


Free Download Darin Wipperman, "Burnside’s Boys: The Union’s Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East"
English | ISBN: 0811772640 | 2023 | 528 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Unique among Union army corps, the Ninth fought in both the Eastern and Western theaters of the Civil War. The corps’ veterans called their service a "geography class," and others have called the Ninth "a wandering corps" because it covered more ground than any corps in the Union armies. With the same attention to detail that he gave to the First Corps in First for the Union, Darin Wipperman vividly reconstructs life-and death-in the Ninth Corps.

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Twelve Days How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CKTX1Q6F | 2023 | 10 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 298 MB
Author: Tony Silber
Narrator: Lee Goettl

In the popular literature of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the battles and changes in American life. Tony Silber’s account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand local militia troops of dubious training and loyalty. In Charleston, the Confederates had an organized army that was larger and ready to fight.

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Silent Cavalry How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta-and Then Got Written Out of History [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C1QFLJXH | 2023 | 19 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 577 MB
Author: Howell Raines
Narrator: Mark Bramhall

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. We all know how the Civil War was won: Courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But is there more to the story? As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers-including at least one member of Raines’s own family.

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Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union


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English | 2016 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0691641382, 0691613621 | PDF | 16,3 mb
This multidisciplinary study of entrepreneurship in Russian society from the sixteenth to the twentieth century demonstrates the crucial influence of central government on economic initiative.

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You Deserve a Tech Union


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1952616603 | 170 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 17 MB
There’s a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers-designers, engineers, writers, and many others-have learned that when they stand together, they’re poised to build a better version of the tech industry. They haven’t stopped there: at companies from Kickstarter to Google, workers have formed unions. And you should, too.

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Engineering Victory The Union Siege of Vicksburg


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English | March 7, 2015 | ISBN: 0809333910 | 304 pages | EPUB | 7.33 Mb
On May 25, 1863, after driving the Confederate army into defensive lines surrounding Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union major general Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee laid siege to the fortress city. With no reinforcements and dwindling supplies, the Army of Vicksburg finally surrendered on July 4, yielding command of the Mississippi River to Union forces and effectively severing the Confederacy. In this illuminating volume, Justin S. Solonick offers the first detailed study of how Grant’s midwesterners serving in the Army of the Tennessee engineered the siege of Vicksburg, placing the event within the broader context of U.S. and European military history and nineteenth-century applied science in trench warfare and field fortifications. In doing so, he shatters the Lost Cause myth that Vicksburg’s Confederate garrison surrendered due to lack of provisions. Instead of being starved out, Solonick explains, the Confederates were dug out.

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