Free Download The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958 By John Pollard
2014 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 0199208565 | PDF | 53 MB
The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958 examines the most momentous years in papal history. Popes Benedict XV (1914-1922), Pius XI (1922-1939), and Pius XII (1939-1958) faced the challenges of two world wars and the Cold War, and threats posed by totalitarian dictatorships likeItalian Fascism, German National Socialism, and Communism in Russia and China. The wars imposed enormous strains upon the unity of Catholics and the hostility of the totalitarian regimes to Catholicism lead to the Church facing persecution and martyrdom on a scale similar to that experienced underthe Roman Empire and following the French Revolution.At the same time, these were years of growth, development, and success for the papacy. Benedict healed the wounds left by the 'modernist' witch hunt of his predecessor and re-established the papacy as an influence in international affairs through his peace diplomacy during the First World War. PiusXI resolved the 'Roman Question' with Italy and put papal finances on a sounder footing. He also helped reconcile the Catholic Church and science by establishing the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and took the first steps to move the Church away from entrenched anti-Semitism. Pius XI continued hispredecessor's policy of the 'indigenisation' of the missionary churches in preparation for de-colonisation. Pius XII fully embraced the media and other means of publicity, and with his infallible promulgation of the Assumption in 1950, he took papal absolutism and centralism to such heights that hehas been called the 'last real pope'. Ironically, he also prepared the way for the Second Vatican Council.

Free Download Paul G. Halpern, "The Naval War in the Mediterranean: 1914-1918 "
English | ISBN: 1138933279 | 2017 | 632 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume, originally published in 1987, fills a gap in a neglected area. Looking at the entire war in the Mediterrean, the volume examines the war from the viewpoint of all the important participants, making full use of archives and manuscript collections in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria and the United States. A fascinating mosaic of campaigns emerges in the Adriatic, Straits of Otranto and the Eastern Aegean. The German assistance to the tribes of Libya, the threat that Germany would get her hands on the Russian Black Sea Fleet and use it in the Mediterreanean, and the appearance and influence of the Americans in 1918 all took place against a background of rivalry between the Allies which frustrated the appointment of Jellicoe in 1918 as supreme command at sea in a role similar to that of Foch on land.

Free Download The Great War: 1914-1918 By Ian F.W. Beckett
2007 | 813 Pages | ISBN: 1405812524 | PDF | 4 MB
The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact.Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution.The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought.The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.

Francis K. Mason - The British Bomber since 1914
Putnam | 1994 | ISBN: 0851778615, 1557500851 | English | 416 pages | PDF | 206.64 MB
This reference work discusses the British Bomber since 1914, and covers 214 aircraft types. Missing: cover.

Eric Hobsbawm, "The Age of Empire: 1875-1914"
English | ISBN: 0679721754 | | 404 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century.

The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914 By Samuel P. Hays
1995 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0226321630 | PDF | 15 MB
In this new edition, Samuel P. Hays expands the scope of his pioneering account of the ways in which Americans reacted to industrialism during its early years from 1885 to 1914. Hays now deepens his coverage of cultural transformations in a study well known for its concise treatment of political and economic movements. Hays draws on the vast knowledge of America's urban and social history that has been developed over the last thirty-eight years to make the second edition an unusually well-rounded study. He enhances the original coverage of politics, labor, and business with new accounts of the growth of cities, the rise of modern values, cultural conflicts with Native Americans and foreign nations, and changing roles for women, African-Americans, education, religion, medicine, law, and leisure. The result is a tightly woven portrait of America in transition that underscores the effects of impersonal market forces and greater personal freedom on individuals and chronicles such changes as the rise of social inequality, shifting power, in the legal system, the expansion of the federal government, and the formation of the Populist, Progressive, and Socialist parties.

Religious Change in Europe 1650-1914: Essays for John McManners By Nigel Aston (editor)
1997 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0198205961 | PDF | 5 MB
This collection ranges across Europe to discuss the nature of religious change over more than two centuries. Contributors include Robin Briggs, Derek Beales, Owen Chadwick, and William Doyle.

Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934: The Ghosts of World War One by Andrew Smith
2022 | ISBN: 1474443435 | English | 232 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book examines how the representation of the ghost-soldier in literature published between1914-1934, both marks the presence of trauma and attempts to make sense of it. Andrew Smith examines short stories, novels, poems and memoirs that employ ghosts to reflect upon feelings of loss, paralleling the literary context with accounts of shell-shock which construe the damaged soldier as psychologically missing and therefore spectre-like.

Pauline Collombier, "Imagining Ireland's Future, 1870-1914: Home Rule, Utopia, Dystopia"
English | ISBN: 3031188241 | 2023 | 375 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book attempts to delve into the connection between imagination and politics, and examines the many expectations and fears engendered by the Irish home rule debate. More specifically, it assesses the ways politicians, artists and writers in Ireland, Britain and its empire imagined how self-government would work in Ireland after the restitution of an Irish parliament. What did home rulers want? What were British supporters of Irish self-government willing to offer? What did home rule mean not only to those who advocated it but also to those who opposed it?

Dennis Showalter, "Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-18"
English | ISBN: 1472829808 | 2018 | 368 pages | EPUB | 35 MB
Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by-yet also defeated by-warfare in the modern age, that struggled to capitalize on its victories, and ultimately forgot the lessons of its defeat.