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Free Download Vandana Shiva, "Water Wars: Pollution, Profits and Privatization"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 074531838X | PDF | pages: 180 | 56.0 mb
An examination of the many controversial appropriations of nature by private concerns, from the rain forests to the gene pool.

Free Download Catherine T. Ortega Klett, "One Hundred Years of Water Wars in New Mexico, 1912-2012 (New Mexico Centennial History Series Book)"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0865349029, 163293597X | PDF | pages: 298 | 132.4 mb
Water is the lifeblood of human existence. New Mexico’s history provides a fascinating microcosm of the role water plays in the growth and development of a community. This book details many of the complex and messy fights, legal and otherwise, over precious water in a semiarid western state. Focusing on the past one hundred years constituting New Mexico’s statehood, contributors describe the often convoluted and always intriguing stories that have shaped New Mexico’s water past and that will, without doubt, influence its future history. Many of New Mexico’s ”movers and shakers” in the water community have contributed their water war stories to the book. From acclaimed water lawyers to historians to novelists to academicians, their stories reflect the broad legal, historic, traditional, religious, and community values of New Mexico’s water culture. The celebration of New Mexico’s centennial is made more complete with the telling of these exciting and colorful narratives of how water has and will shape our future.

Free Download Charles River Editors, Victoria Woodson (Narrator), "Towton and Bosworth: The History of the Wars of the Roses’ Most Important Battles"
English | ISBN: 9798868691539 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~02:08:00 | 70 MB
Today, roses are a sign of love and luxury, but for over 30 years, they provided the symbols for two houses at war for control of the English throne. Thousands of people died and many more were injured fighting beneath the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster, and the noble families ruling England tore each other apart in a struggle that was as bitter as it was bloody. Though what followed was a period of strong rule under the Tudors monarchs, it ultimately came at a terrible cost, and even then, it was through Elizabeth of York that the Tudor line received its legitimacy. After all, while Henry VII won his throne in battle, Elizabeth of York was the daughter of King Edward IV of England, a Yorkist monarch.
Despite their limited social and economic impact, the political and personal dramas of the Wars of the Roses have ensured that they are well remembered and still part of the popular imagination. The most famous depictions of the period came from Shakespeare, whose earliest plays included Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI. Naturally, Shakespeare dramatized the tensions of what he presented as hugely destructive events, and his account, which showed the damage done by corruption and weak rule, and which turned Richard III into a popular villain, aimed to please the Tudor dynasty still in power at the time. Of course, it also played to a popular interest in high drama and the sort of personal and political conflicts that lay at the heart of the war.
Indeed, the Wars of the Roses were perfect material for a drama about greed, power and ambition, and many others followed Shakespeare’s example. From Henry Payne’s painting of a Shakespearean scene in which the two sides of the war are picked to John Everett Millais’s mournful portrait of the Princes in the Tower, these pictures often evoke the tension and sorrow of the period, bringing it dramatically to life.

Free Download Dan Jones, John Curless (Narrator), "The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors"
English | ASIN: B00OI2HKZY | 2014 | M4B@64 kbps | ~15:07:00 | 447 MB
The author of the New York Times best-seller The Plantagenets chronicles the next chapter in British history – the actual historical backdrop for Game of Thrones. The 15th century saw the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands five times as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought to the death for the right to rule. Now, celebrated historian Dan Jones describes how the longest reigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was finally replaced by the Tudors. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown together in these turbulent times – from Joan of Arc and Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt and prudent rule marked the high point of the medieval English monarchy, to Richard III, who stole the throne and murdered his own nephews, the princes in the Tower. It is also a period of headstrong and resilient women – Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort – who were not afraid to seize power and bend men to their will. With vivid descriptions of the battles of Towton and Bosworth, where the last Plantagenet king was slain, this is a bold and dramatic narrative history that will delight listeners who like their history with a healthy dose of bedlam, romance, and intrigue.

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Free Download The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sit Downs (Jon Kelley Wright Workers’ Memorial Books) By Sidney Lens
2009 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 1931859701 | PDF | 19 MB
The rise of the American labor movement was characterized by bloody and revolutionary battles. From the first famous martyrs, the Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania coal fields in the nineteenth century, to the crucial workers’ victory of the 1930s in the sit-down strikes against General Motors, it has a history of pitched battles that frequently erupted into open warfare.This is also the story of the factional wars within the American labor movement itself and of the great leaders it generated: Eugene Debs, Samuel Gompers, William Z. Foster, Bill Haywood, John L. Lewis, Walter Reuther, and many more-some of them Sidney Lens’ personal friends.There have been no revolutions in the United States since the first one in 1776. The closest America has come to revolution has been the Labor Wars, each one of which has been, in a sense, a revolution-in-microcosm. The strikers in these industrial fl are-ups confronted not only the power of their employers but, ultimately, that of the State . . . and in the process there was always the possibility of a widening and escalating conflict bordering on insurrection.Sidney Lens (1912-1986) was the author of many books about labor and radical movements in the United States, including The Forging of the American Empire (republished in 2003 by Haymarket Books and Pluto Press). He was a candidate for the Senate for the Citizens Party and an editor at The Progressive.

Free Download The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
by Janet Shirley
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138451657 | 225 Pages | True PDF | 6.5 MB

Free Download Russia’s Wars in Chechnya
by Galeotti, Mark;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1472858220 | 145 pages | True PDF EPUB | 64.52 MB

Free Download Captivating History, Jason Saffir (Narrator), "The West Virginia Coal Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Mine Wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain, the Largest Labor Uprising in the History of the United States of America"
English | ISBN: 9798868719219 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~03:25:00 | 101 MB
Did you know the coal fields of West Virginia were the scene of violence and strife between coal miners and coal company management in the early 20th century?
The West Virginia Coal Wars are often overlooked in US history. It is time that changed.
Several lessons can be learned from what happened during the West Virginia Coal Wars. These confrontations led to developments in labor relations that define collective bargaining to this day. There were heroes and villains, saints and sinners, and a mountain culture that was inexorably changed. It is a story that is fascinating and disturbing at the same time.

Free Download The North Aegean Wars, 371-360 B.C By Julia Heskel
1997 | 186 Pages | ISBN: 3515069178 | PDF | 4 MB
The basis of this book is Heskel’s belief that Philip II’s policies regarding Athens cannot be properly understood without a thorough investigation of the preceding events of the 360s, and what Heskel describes as the `hitbed of diplomatic and military activity’ that was the North Aegean in that period. By making the region, rather than the actions of any one power the central focus of the study, Heskel aims to fill in the gaps left by previous writers on the subject.

Free Download Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494-1559
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009462687 | 78 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of women connected to imperial, royal and princely dynasties, the authors show the breadth and depth of the opportunities, roles, impact, and influence that certain women had to shape the course of the conflict in both wartime activities and in peace-making. The work thus expands the ways in which the authors can think about women’s participation in war and politics. It makes use of a wide range of sources such as literature, art and material culture, as well as more conventional text forms. Women’s voices and actions are prioritized in making sense of evidence and claims about their activities.