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Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766

Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766
Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766 By Eamonn O Ciardha
2004 | 468 Pages | ISBN: 1851828052 | PDF | 89 MB
This book offers the first analytic study of Irish Jacobitism in English, spanning the period between the succession of James II (1685) and the death of his son 'James III', 'the Old Pretender', in 1766. Two crucial features are the analysis of Irish Jacobite poetry in its wider 'British' and European contexts and the inclusion of the Irish diaspora as a pivotal part of the Irish political 'nation'. Both Jacobites and anti-Jacobites were obsessed with the vicissitudes of eighteenth-century European politics, and the fluctuating fortunes of the Stuarts in international diplomacy. European high politics and recruitment for the Irish Brigades in France and Spain provide the dominant themes in the poems, letters, pamphlets and memoirs of Irish writers, at home and abroad. The period between the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession (1739-49) and the end of the Seven Years' War (1763) witnessed a reinvigoration of Irish Jacobitism which permeated all levels of Irish society, at home and abroad. However, Britain's triumph in 1763 laid the basis for a new geopolitics, which hastened the demise of Jacobitism as a potent force in European high politics. It also permitted the emergence of a segment of Irish Catholic opinion willing to make a strategic accommodation with the House of Hanover.

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Iran Looking East An Alternative to the EU

Iran Looking East An Alternative to the EU
Annalisa Perteghella, "Iran Looking East: An Alternative to the EU? "
English | ISBN: 8855261479 | 2019 | 132 pages | EPUB | 1027 KB
In February 2018, anticipating the US withdrawal from the JCPOA, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared a policy of "preferring East over West", thus paving the way for deeper cooperation with Asian powers such as China, Russia, and India. Differently from the "Look East" policy promoted during the presidency of Ahmadinejad (2005-2013), the current Iranian strategy is not only functional to escape the US-led isolation, but it rather seems devoted to the consolidation of a block of power which can commit to security and economic schemes in alternative to the Western-dominated ones.

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Inventing and Resisting Britain Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789 (British Studies Series)

Inventing and Resisting Britain Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789 (British Studies Series)
Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789 (British Studies Series) By Murray G. H. Pittock
1997 | 189 Pages | ISBN: 0312165765 | PDF | 11 MB
This book examines the difficulties and challenges which faced attempts to create a British identity. Taking its perspective from the cultural, social and political margins of the British Isles, it demonstrates how fragile the supposed political consensus of the eighteenth century was. To read it is to revaluate our understanding of the culture of England in relation to other societies of these islands.

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Inventing Value The Social Construction of Monetary Worth

Inventing Value The Social Construction of Monetary Worth
Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009199331 | 245 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
Value is central to the market sectors of the contemporary economy, yet the best-established theories of value fail to expose how it operates and how it is manipulated for profit. This book begins to reconstruct the theory of value. In one sense, it argues, value is a personal assessment of worth, but those assessments draw deeply on normative standards. The book examines those standards and how they are formed, transformed and supported by the construction of new social structures. The empirical evidence comes from contemporary financial examples: the mortgage-backed securities that caused the global crash of 2008, how venture capitalists secure outrageous valuations for so-called unicorn companies, and the rise of Bitcoin. The result is a theory that shows how value is invented by value entrepreneurs in pursuit of their interests and thus provides a new basis for criticising the role of value in the commodity economy and the finance sector.

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Introduction To Western Master Painters And Their Works

Introduction To Western Master Painters And Their Works
Introduction To Western Master Painters And Their Works by Kevn Todd
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B96D5HYQ | 264 pages | EPUB | 6.27 Mb
The successive emergence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the second half of the 19th century was a major change in the history of Western art and was of epoch-making importance. This book mainly introduces the important painters of the major schools of Western art in the second half of the 19th century, such as Manet, Pissarro, Monet, Degas, Sisley and Renoir of Impressionism, Cйzanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh of Post-Impressionism, Redon and Munch of Symbolism. Through the introduction of their lives and major works, readers can get a general understanding of the Western art history of this period. At the same time, the book is equipped with a large number of rich pictures of famous paintings, so that readers can easily appreciate the artistic charm of famous paintings.

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Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India

Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India
Savyasaachi, "Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India "
English | ISBN: 0367734648 | 2020 | 234 pages | EPUB | 561 KB
This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts ― of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a critical transformative narrative in response to these conflicts. It asks how social justice and equality is to be constructed and provides a fresh perspective.

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Into the Black The Inside Story of Metallica

Into the Black The Inside Story of Metallica
Paul Brannigan, Ian Winwood, "Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0306821885 | EPUB | pages: 289 | 3.2 mb
Into the Black begins on the eve of the release of Metallica's massive breakthrough with the eponymous LP that became known as "The Black Album." Suddenly, at the dawn of the '90s, Metallica was no longer the biggest thrash metal band in the world-they were the biggest rock band in the world, period.

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Interpersonal Conflict Ed 11

Interpersonal Conflict Ed 11
Joyce Hocker, "Interpersonal Conflict Ed 11"
English | ISBN: 1260836959 | 2021 | 416 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Interpersonal Conflict 11e examines the central issues that inform conflict and, in turn, make readers' personal and professional lives challenging and fascinating. With new cases and applications that reflect cultural changes that shape the ways people move through conflict, this new edition invites readers to reflect on, and better understand, conflict as it pertains to the unique vantage points of their lived experience.

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