Heather Ellis, "Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831-1918"
English | 2017 | pages: 247 | ISBN: 1137311738 | PDF | 2,0 mb
This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public image of the British 'man of science' and questions the status of the natural scientist as a modern masculine hero. Until now, science has been examined by cultural historians primarily for evidence about the ways in which scientific discourses have shaped prevailing notions about women and supported the growth of oppressive patriarchal structures. This volume, by contrast, offers the first in-depth study of the importance of ideals of masculinity in the construction of the male scientist and British scientific culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the eighteenth-century identification of the natural philosopher with the reclusive scholar, to early nineteenth-century attempts to reinvent the scientist as a fashionable gentleman, to his subsequent reimagining as the epitome of Victorian moral earnestness and meritocracy, Heather Ellis analyzes the complex and changing public image of the British 'man of science'.

English | 2020 | ISBN: 9780192606334 | 735 pages | True EPUB | 3.63 MB
The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come.

English | ASIN: B01AGSCE8Q | 2016 | 28 hours and 46 minutes |MP3|M4B | 409 MB
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance and peopled by a cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy, from Queen Victoria to Lenin. To rule Russia was both imperial-sacred mission and poisoned chalice. Six tsars were murdered, and all the Romanovs lived under constant threat to their lives.

English | ASIN: B088MGP967 | 2021 | 14 hours and 45 minutes |MP3|M4B | 405 MB
From an award-winning historian, the first full depiction of the wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution and how they laid the groundwork for the Holocaust. Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms - ethnic riots - dominated headlines and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true.

In the Midst of Civilized Europe The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger
epub | 28.83 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1443451878 | Author: Jeffrey Veidlinger | Year: 2021

In the Midst of Civilized Europe The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger | 28.83 MB
English | 465 Pages

Title: In the Midst of Civilized Europe
Author: Jeffrey Veidlinger
Year: 2021

Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History by Catharine Arnold
English | May 21, 2020 | ISBN: 178929293X | 384 pages | EPUB | 3.09 Mb
In the dying months of the First World War, Spanish Flu suddenly overwhelmed the globe, killing up to 100 million people. it was one of the most devastating natural disasters in world history ...

Armies in Southern Russia 1918 - 19 (Men-at-Arms)
pdf, epub | 19.13 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B08M6F3PV9 | Author: Athanassiou, Phoebus; Dennis, Peter;, Peter Dennis | Year: 2021

Out of the Dark, 1914-1918: South Dubliners Who Fell in the Great War By Ken Kinsella
2014 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 190892859X | PDF | 17 MB
This timely and compelling book records the experiences of Irishmen from South County Dublin who fought in World War I, while also accounting for the lives of their families who remained at home. Principally a social history, the main body of the book is broken up into seven chapters that each disclose the history of a particular district in South Dublin. These local histories expand upon the background of the families subsequently related, providing a fascinating portrait of the lives that soldiers left behind. The Roll of Honor covers individuals with riveting life stories and tales of anecdotal intrigue. Families of interesting power and wealth are included, such as the great merchant families of Dublin at the time: the Dockrells, Findlaters, Lees, Martins, and McCormicks. The book also provides an illuminating history of Ireland's involvement in World War I generally, and how the war and its fighters have been subsequently recognized within Irish society. Reasons for enlistment, the effect of Gallipoli and the Easter Rising, as well as examples of how ex-British servicemen were treated when they returned home to Ireland following the end of the war - all are accounted for in this fascinating history that highlights the enduring contentions related to Ireland's involvement in 'the Great War.'