Free Download How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women By Lindsey German
2013 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0745332501 | PDF | 8 MB
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at the remarkable impact of war on women in Britain. It shows how conflict has changed women's lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning.Lindsey German, one of the UK's leading anti-war activists and commentators, shows how women have played a central role in anti-war and peace movements, including the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The women themselves talk about how they overcame prejudice and difficulty to become active. The book integrates this experience with a historical overview, analysing the two world wars as catalysts of social change for women. It looks at how the changing nature of war, especially the involvement of civilians, increasingly involves significant numbers of women.As well as providing an inspiring account of women's opposition to war, the book also tackles key contemporary developments, challenging negative assumptions about Muslim women and showing how anti-war movements are feeding into a broader desire to change society.

Free Download Emily Neumeier, "Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 147446100X | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 93 MB
Hagia Sophia―a building whose domes have defined Istanbul's skyline for over 1500 years―has led many lives. Initially a church, subsequently a mosque, then a museum, the structure is today a monument of world heritage, even as its official status remains contested. Hagia Sophia's global fame took shape during the long nineteenth century, when Europeans "discovered" its architectural significance. But what role did local actors play in the creation of Hagia Sophia as a modern monument? This book seeks out the audiences of this building beyond its Western interpreters, from Ottoman officials to the diverse communities of Istanbul. Chronologically bracketed by the major renovation of the structure in the 1740s and its conversion into a museum in 1934, this volume traces the gradual transformation of Hagia Sophia within the Ottoman imaginary from

Free Download Deterrence in the 21st Century: Statecraft in the Information Age
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1773854801 | 400 Pages | PDF EPUB | 5 MB
The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data, confusing or obscuring public opinion to forward specific goals, and beyond. Deterrence in the 21st Century asks how, and if it is indeed possible, to deter an enemy in the realm of information warfare.

Free Download Michael Marder, "Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century"
English | ISBN: 0262547627 | 2024 | 368 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

Free Download Peter G. Thompson, "Armed Groups: The Twenty-First-Century Threat"
English | ISBN: 1538168634 | 2023 | 292 pages | EPUB, PDF | 700 KB + 2 MB
Armed Groups is the most comprehensive text to provide a framework for categorizing the key actors that pose a threat to today's security arena-terrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizations-and analyzing their characteristics to provide a thorough overview. Drawing on case studies, histories, and a rich, yet underexplored theoretical literature, this study presents students with the tools to methodically examine these often overlooked, but key drivers of violence in the international system.

Free Download Apples and Orchards since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition
by Joanna Crosby
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350378488 | 235 Pages | True ePUB | 1.03 MB

Free Download Apples and Orchards since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition
by Joanna Crosby
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350378488 | 235 Pages | True PDF | 6.63 MB

Free Download Oscar Lovell Triggs, "ARTS & CRAFTS (ART OF CENTURY)"
Deutsch | 2009 | ISBN: 1844846326 | EPUB | pages: 2012 | 6.8 mb
Bewahren Sie nichts in Ihren Hausern auf, was Sie nicht als nutzlich erachten oder wirklich schon finden. Allein dieses Zitat von William Morris konnte schon als erklarende Zusammenfassung der Arts and Crafts-Bewegung dienen, die in England eine Reform des Kunstgewerbes hervorrief. Diese von John Ruskin gegrundete und von William Morris erst richtig vorangetriebene Bewegung Arts and Crafts brachte revolutionare Ideen in das viktorianische England. In der Blute des seelenlosen Industriezeitalters, in dem Gegenstande standardisiert wurden, forderten die Mitglieder der Arts and Crafts-Bewegung, in die Herstellung einen asthetischen Aspekt einzubringen. Handwerk und Design wurden somit zum Hauptgegenstand dieser neuen Ideologie. Arts & Crafts beeinflusste nunmehr zahlreiche Stile der ganzen Welt und druckte hauptsachlich dem Design, der Malerei und der Architektur ihren Stempel auf."

Free Download A Force More Powerful A Century of Non-violent Conflict By Peter Ackerman, Jack DuVall
2015 | 561 Pages | ISBN: 0312228643 | EPUB | 6 MB
This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes and boycotts--separate brutal regimes from their means of control. They tell inside stories--how Danes outmaneuvered the Nazis, Solidarity defeated Polish communism, and mass action removed a Chilean dictator--and also how nonviolent power is changing the world today, from Burma to Serbia.Review"A Force More Powerful challenges a longstanding myth that lies at the heart of much of the turmoil of the 20th century: that power comes from the barrel of a gun; based on convincing detail, Ackerman and Duvall dare to claim that nonviolent movements lead to more secure democracies." ―Christian Science Monitor"A skillful blend of sweeping narrative and tightly focused case studies, the book fills a vacuum in historical studies of the 20th century." ―Philadelphia Inquirer"This throughly researched and highly readable book underlines the contrast between stable democratic societies created by nonviolent movements and tyrannical regimes born of violent revolution. Recommended..." ―Library Journal"...this book is an important documentation of non-violence as an attested historical force." ―The Times Higher Education SupplementAbout the AuthorPeter Ackerman holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.Jack Duvall is President of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.

Free Download Monika Barget, "Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Mediation and the Transformation of Political Culture "
English | ISBN: 1350377139 | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1481 KB + 11 MB
This study examines how the British Empire of the 18th century contained revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. Monika Barget convincingly argues that this process of constitutionalisation meant that groups from the aristocracy to religious communities, from the army to the people at large, were brought into the system in a way that balanced the obvious, serious challenges that the Glorious Revolution, the Jacobite Rebellion, the American Revolution, and Jacobin threats of the late-18th century posed to the Empire. Barget highlights the lasting political and legal repercussions of this process. The structure of the chapters, each focussing on specific agents and conflict media, also links the history of political agency and political institutions with an expanding European and even trans-continental media market.