Stefan Manz, "Refugees and Cultural Transfer to Britain"
English | ISBN: 041557191X | 2013 | 238 pages | EPUB | 1453 KB
This book is the first to focus specifically upon the relationship between refugees and intercultural transfer over an extensive period of time. Since circa 1830, a series of groups have made their way to Britain, beginning with exiles from the failed European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century and ending with refugees who have increasingly come from beyond Europe. The book addresses four specific questions. First, what roles have individuals or groups of refugees played in cultural and political transfers to Britain since 1830? Second, can we identify a novel form of cultural production which differs from that in the homeland? Third, to what extent has dissemination within and transformation of the receiving culture occurred? Fourth, to what extent do refugee groups, themselves, undergo a process of cultural restructuring? The coverage of the individual essays ranges from high culture, through politics and everyday practices. The volume moves away from general perceptions of refugees as 'problem groups' and rather focuses on the way they have shaped, and indeed enriched, British cultural and political life.

Mia Treacey, "Reframing the Past: History, Film and Television"
English | ISBN: 1138815888 | 2016 | 180 pages | EPUB | 602 KB
Reframing the Past traces what historians have written about film and television from 1898 until the early 2000s. Mia Treacey argues that historical engagement with film and television should be reconceptualised as Screened History: an interdisciplinary, international field of research to incorporate and replace what has been known as 'History and film'. It draws from the fields of Film, Television and Cultural Studies to critically analyse key works and connect past scholarship with contemporary research.

Austra Reinis, "Reforming the Art of Dying: The Ars Moriendi in the German Reformation "
English | ISBN: 0754654397 | 2007 | 304 pages | EPUB | 507 KB
The Reformation led those who embraced Martin Luther's teachings to revise virtually every aspect of their faith and to reorder their daily lives in view of their new beliefs. Nowhere was this more true than with death. By the beginning of the sixteenth century the Medieval Church had established a sophisticated mechanism for dealing with death and its consequences. The Protestant reformers rejected this new mechanism. To fill the resulting gap and to offer comfort to the dying, they produced new liturgies, new church orders, and new handbooks on dying. This study focuses on the earliest of the Protestant handbooks, beginning with Luther's Sermon on Preparing to Die in 1519 and ending with Jakob Otter's Christlich leben vnd sterben in 1528. It explores how Luther and his colleagues adopted traditional themes and motifs even as they transformed them to accord with their conviction that Christians could be certain of their salvation. It further shows how Luther's colleagues drew not only on his teaching on dying, but also on other writings including his sermons on the sacraments. The study concludes that the assurance of salvation offered in the Protestant handbooks represented a significant departure from traditional teaching on death. By examining the ways in which the themes and teachings of the reformers differed from the late medieval ars moriendi, the book highlights both breaks with tradition and continuities that marked the early Reformation.

Alexander Riley, "Reflecting on the 1960s at 50"
English | ISBN: 0367486768 | 2020 | 104 pages | EPUB | 927 KB
Reflecting on the 1960s at 50: A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse is a punchy, conversational look at some of the most interesting pieces of cultural and social conflict from the '60s, reflected through the lens of our own vantage point today.

Reds at the Gates: Ace of Spades by Joshua Carrington
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BM52P4T1 | 117 pages | EPUB | 0.23 Mb
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Michael D. Berdine, "Redrawing the Middle East: Sir Mark Sykes, Imperialism and the Sykes-Picot Agreement "
English | ISBN: 1788311949 | 2018 | 328 pages | EPUB | 1245 KB
The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East. Yet its co-creator, Sir Mark Sykes, had far more involvement in British Middle East strategy during World War I than the Agreement for which he is now most remembered. Between 1915 and 1916, Sykes was Lord Kitchener's agent at home and abroad, operating out of the War Office until the war secretary's death at sea in 1916. Following that, from 1916 to 1919 he worked at the Imperial War Cabinet, the War Cabinet Secretariat and, finally, as an advisor

Paul Rubinson, "Redefining Science: Scientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America "
English | ISBN: 1625342446 | 2016 | 324 pages | EPUB | 473 KB
The Cold War forced scientists to reconcile their values of internationalism and objectivity with the increasingly militaristic uses of scientific knowledge. For decades, antinuclear scientists pursued nuclear disarmament in a variety of ways, from grassroots activism to transnational diplomacy and government science advising. The U.S. government ultimately withstood these efforts, redefining science as a strictly technical endeavor that enhanced national security and deeming science that challenged nuclear weapons on moral grounds "emotional" and patently unscientific. In response, many activist scientists restricted themselves to purely technical arguments for arms control. When antinuclear protest erupted in the 1980s, grassroots activists had moved beyond scientific and technical arguments for disarmament. Grounding their stance in the idea that nuclear weapons were immoral, they used the "emotional" arguments that most scientists had abandoned.

Allen C. Guelzo, "Redeeming the Great Emancipator "
English | ISBN: 0674286111 | 2016 | 208 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln's identity is precisely the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. In a vigorous defense of America's sixteenth president, award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo refutes accusations of Lincoln's racism and political opportunism, while candidly probing the follies of contemporary cynicism and the constraints of today's unexamined faith in the liberating powers of individual autonomy.

Enrique Krauze, "Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America"
English | ISBN: 0066214734 | 2011 | 560 pages | EPUB | 1353 KB
An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominentthinkers

Recent Trends In Chaotic, Nonlinear And Complex Dynamics
by Awrejcewicz, Jan;Shanmuganathan, Rajasekar;Ragulskis, Minvydas;
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811221898 | 561 pages | True PDF EPUB | 115.59 MB