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E-BooksThe American West Competing Visions



The American West Competing Visions
Free Download Karen R. Jones, "The American West: Competing Visions"
English | ISBN: 0748622519 | 2009 | 352 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men.During the late 1980s, this old way of seeing the West came under heavy fire. Scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White forged a fresh story of the region, a new vision of the West, based around the conquest of peoples and landscapes.This book explores the bipolar world of Turner's Old West and Limerick's New West and reveals the values and ambiguities associated with both historical traditions. Sections on Lewis and Clark, the frontier and the cowboy sit alongside work on Indian genocide and women's trail diaries. Images of the region as seen through the arcade Western, Hollywood film and Disney theme parks confirm the West as a symbolic and contested landscape.Tapping into popular fascination with the Cowboy, Hollywood movies, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand, the authors show the reader how to deconstruct the imagery and reality surrounding Western history.Key Features*Uses popular subjects (the Cowboy, Hollywood westerns, the Indian Wars, and Custer's Last Stand) to enliven the text*Includes 13 b+w illustrations*Interdisciplinary approach covers film, literature, art and historical artefacts



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E-BooksOther Combatants, Other Fronts Competing Histories of the First World War



Other Combatants, Other Fronts Competing Histories of the First World War
Free Download Other Combatants, Other Fronts: Competing Histories of the First World War By Alisa Miller; Alisa Miller and Laura Rowe
2011 | 325 Pages | ISBN: 1443827371 | PDF | 2 MB
The First World War is a subject that has fascinated the public as well as the academic community since the close of hostilities in 1918. Over the past thirty years in particular, the historiography associated with the conflict has expanded considerably to include studies whose emphases range between the economic, social, cultural, literary, and imperial aspects of the war, all coinciding with revisions to perceptions of its military context. Nevertheless, much of the discussion of the First World War remains confined to the experiences of a narrow collection of European armies on the battlefields of Northern France and Belgium. This volume seeks to push the focus away from the Western Front and to draw out the multi-spectral nature of the conflict, examining forgotten theatres and neglected experiences. The chapters explore the question of what total war meant for the lives of people around the world implicated in this momentous event, broadening current debates on the First World War as well as developing, reinforcing, and refining the existing categories of analysis. The chapters are grouped into sections that reflect neglected elements of the transnational interpretation of the conflict and aspects of the total war debate. These encompass alternative forms of mobilisation, issues of neutrality, ideas of racial identity, and the scope of violence. The volume thus not only expands First World War studies but also contributes to the wider discourse on the shifting nature of warfare in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With chapters by leading scholars and early career researchers, this volume draws on a diverse range of original archival research undertaken across disciplinary and national boundaries. The contributions to the volume provide an analysis of the conflict that draws out its full breadth and complexity. The First World War demonstrated the critically important relationship between national mobilisation and total war, and saw multiple mobilisations and re-mobilisations of European populations. This theme is explored at the national, regional, and local levels through examinations of the Sicilian province of Catania, the role of science in France and Britain, and the utilisation of the narrative of maritime heroism surrounding the British sailor Jack Cornwell. For Europe s neutrals the First World War was often as total in its effects as for those states engaged in military operations. Chapters analyse the diverse range of these experiences of neutrality, from the economy and people of the Netherlands to the attitudes of Switzerland s intellectuals. Racial interpretations of modern conflict have defined much of the historiography of total war. The complexities of racial analysis with respect to total war are highlighted in chapters dealing with white colonial internees in German East Africa, the treatment of prisoners of war in Europe, and the recruitment of India s primitive peoples for service in labour units. The final section of the volume considers the scale and broad scope of the violence unleashed during the First World War. Chapters on the continuation of German naval war culture after the conflict, the shaping of personal narratives of the war in the Ottoman Empire, and anti-alien violence among veterans in Canada serve to reinforce the extent to which the conflict affected wider aspects of twentieth-century history around the globe. Other Combatants, Other Fronts sheds light on the diverse experiences of neutral and belligerent states, and their combatants and civilians, during the tumultuous events of 1914-18. This brings to the fore the extent to which the mechanisms of conflict developed during the struggle had a truly global reach, and the impact this has had ever since in defining modern conflict. The collection reinforces the notion that although the First World War was a vast and often bewildering industrial conflict, it was ultimately a very human phenomenon."



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E-BooksCompeting Catholicisms The Jesuits, the Vatican & the Making of Postcolonial French Africa



Competing Catholicisms The Jesuits, the Vatican & the Making of Postcolonial French Africa
Free Download Jean-Luc Enyegue SJ, "Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican & the Making of Postcolonial French Africa "
English | ISBN: 184701271X | 2022 | 324 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Explores the impact of Jesuit missions on the development of Christianity in postcolonial French Africa, which found itself at the centre of major shifts and struggles within global Christianity and world politics.



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E-BooksSpatial Business Competing and Leading with Location Analytics



Spatial Business Competing and Leading with Location Analytics
Free Download Spatial Business: Competing and Leading with Location Analytics by Thomas A. Horan, James B. Pick, Avijit Sarkar
English | December 13th, 2022 | ISBN: 1589485335 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 18.85 MB
How do companies use location intelligence to achieve competitive advantage and business success?



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E-BooksFrom Protology to Eschatology Competing Views on the Origin and the End of the Cosmos in Platonism and Christian Though



From Protology to Eschatology Competing Views on the Origin and the End of the Cosmos in Platonism and Christian Though
Joseph Verheyden, "From Protology to Eschatology: Competing Views on the Origin and the End of the Cosmos in Platonism and Christian Though"
English | ISBN: 3161610091 | 2022 | 262 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference held in Leuven in June 2017 as a follow-up to a previous meeting that dealt with views on the origin of the cosmos in Greek philosophical and early Christian tradition (published in STAC 104, 2017). The second conference focused on how both traditions have reflected on the end or the goal towards which the cosmos is moving. The Judeo-Christian concept of a creation with temporal development and the philosophical notion of the eternity of the world evidently represent two very different positions. Yet there are also clear signs of convergence and of the latter influencing the former. The essays show there is common interest in reflecting not only on the principles that govern cosmology and on how the cosmos is reverting on its principles, but also on the answers provided in each tradition.



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E-BooksCompeting to Win Lessons Learned for Reaching the Next Level of Organizational Performance (The Wisdom Chronicles)



Competing to Win Lessons Learned for Reaching the Next Level of Organizational Performance (The Wisdom Chronicles)
Competing to Win: Lessons Learned for Reaching the Next Level of Organizational Performance (The Wisdom Chronicles) by Dr. Ted Marra
English | December 19, 2014 | ISBN: 1634620062 | 166 pages | EPUB | 5.19 Mb
What does it take to build and maintain a truly enduring and continuously successful business - one that stands the test of time, turbulence and change and despite all that has continued to set the standard for performance and excellence by which other organizations are measured?



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E-BooksInternational Business Competing in the Global Marketplace



International Business Competing in the Global Marketplace
Charles Hill, "International Business: Competing in the Global Marketplace"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 007811277X | PDF | pages: 689 | 323.9 mb
Market-defining since it was introduced, International Business: Competing in the Global Marketplace by Charles W. L. Hill, sets the standard. Hill draws upon his experience to deliver a complete solution-print and digital―for instructors & students by being: Integrated - Progression of Topics



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E-BooksIt's Not About Perfect Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life



It's Not About Perfect Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life
Shannon Miller, "It's Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life"
English | ISBN: 1250049865 | 2015 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
It's Not About Perfect is inspirational memoir of the most decorated gymnast in American history, her recovery from cancer, and her miracle pregnancy.



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E-BooksCompeting on Thought Leadership



Competing on Thought Leadership
Competing on Thought Leadership by Robert Buday
English | January 25, 2022 | ISBN: 1646871006 | 258 pages | PDF | 3.45 Mb
"An essential guide to the engine that drives the early adoption of disruptive innovations."



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E-BooksThe Great Disruption Competing and Surviving in the Second Wave of the Industrial Revolution



The Great Disruption Competing and Surviving in the Second Wave of the Industrial Revolution
Rick Smith, "The Great Disruption: Competing and Surviving in the Second Wave of the Industrial Revolution"
English | ISBN: 125009142X | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1226 KB
The Great Disruption reveals how 3D printing manufacturing will transform the world in the same way that Henry Ford's Model T upended transportation or Gutenberg's printing press started an information revolution. It traces both the impact of this disruption as it rapidly spreads around the world and affects every kind of industry imaginable, while detailing specific steps that can and should be taken right now to prepare.



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