Free Download Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong-and Right-About America's Leading Universities by Derek Bok
English | February 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 0300273606 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 0.83 MB
A former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and how they can do better

Free Download Economic Elites, Political Parties and the Electoral Arena: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective by Felipe Monestier
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 204 Pages | ISBN : 3031461649 | 4.6 MB
This book delves into the intricate dynamics between economic elites and the political party system in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, particularly during their democratization phases in the twentieth century. It introduces a novel framework for comprehending the diverse political strategies adopted by these countries' economic elites during this critical period. The central premise of this book is that the interplay between the cohesion of economic elites and the mobilization of popular sectors at specific historical junctures profoundly influences the nature of elite political involvement.

Free Download The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson
English | October 5, 2021 | ISBN: 1541602153 | 357 pages | PDF | 2.54 Mb
The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship.

Free Download Democratisation in Britain: Elites, Civil Society and Reform Since 1800 By John Garrard
2017 | 317 Pages | ISBN: 0333646401 | PDF | 2 MB
Much more than just a conventional history of franchise reform, this book explores the process whereby British politics was democratized and tries to account for its relative success. Britain is set within the context of successive waves of democratisation which have been in progress internationally since 1800. The author examines the role of British political elites, and the strength and character of civil society amongst the social groups included from 1832 onwards. He also analyzes the democratization of electoral behaviour.

According to Plan: The Elites' Secret Plan to Sabotage America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVCZNKDP | 2023 | 4 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Kevin D. Freeman
Narrator: Kevin D. Freeman
It seems so much is going wrong in America. Some say it's because our leaders are incompetent. Others think it's merely a coincidence. But to millions of concerned Americans, those simplistic explanations no longer ring true. Instead, they sense something else is going on. Kevin Freeman is one of them. Drawing on his deep expertise in investigative analysis, he took a hard look at all that America is going through. Piecing together historical evidence and current events, he made a shocking discovery: The crises now facing America are happening according to plan. Decades in the making, it is a plan to take down the greatest obstacle to totalitarianism the world has ever known: the United States. And it's a plan that will succeed-unless we join together now to save America.

Christopher Craig, "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan "
English | ISBN: 0824886259 | 2021 | 278 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Among the challenges facing Japan in its quest to match the modern states of the Western world, none was more crucial than the development of agriculture. With a state focused more on the emblematic goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell upon local elites in villages across the country to bring rice production into the modern era. Middlemen of Modernity explores these elites and their actions in a region in northeastern Japan, presenting a view of the transformation of Japanese agriculture from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Meiji-era agricultural policy called for village elites to mobilize their wealth and local reputations to introduce improved farming methods, transform the physical landscape, and increase agricultural production. Farmers looked to the same figures to use their elevated status and government connections to direct public funds toward building prosperous villages. But economic shocks and social change created a new generation of elites with their own vision for agricultural improvement, leading to conditions that caused famine, economic disparity, and village unrest. The official and local responses to these discrepancies brought an end to the elite leadership of agricultural development at the beginning of the twentieth century, but its legacy set the course for farming and rural Japanese society for the next half century.

Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815 - 1861 By Enrico Dal Lago
2005 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 0807130877 | PDF | 13 MB
Between 1815 and 1861, American slaveholders and southern Italian landowners presided over the economic and social life of two predominantly agricultural regions, the U.S. South and Italy's Mezzogiorno. Enrico Dal Lago ingeniously compares these agrarian elites, demonstrating how the study of each enhances our understanding of the other as well as of their shared nineteenth-century world. Agrarian Elites charts the parallel developments of plantations and latifondi in relation to changes in the world economy. At the same time, it examines the spread of "paternalistic" models of family relations and of slave and free-labor management that accompanied the rise of large groups of American slaveholders and southern Italian landed proprietors in the early-to-mid-1800s. According to Dal Lago, the most articulate and enlightened members of both elites combined the pursuit of profit with the implementation of "modern" contractual practices in dealing with their workforces. Both elites also used their economic and social power for political advantage, opposing the intervention of their national governments in local affairs. The search for ever-better protection of their respective interests in slaveholding and landed property led ultimately to their support for the creation of two nations, the Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy, both in 1861.Dal Lago brings together two subjects that have generated considerable debate and research: systems of slave and nominally free labor and the elites who employed them, and nineteenth-century nationalism. With its pathbreaking approach and singular and comparative insights, Agrarian Elites will inform not only American and Italian studies but also the very practice of comparative history.

The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP31VLXD | 2022 | 10 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Francesca Bolla Tripodi
Narrator: Francesca Bolla Tripodi
The Propagandists' Playbook peels back the layers of the right-wing media manipulation machine to reveal why its strategies are so effective and pervasive, while also humanizing the people whose worldviews and media practices conservatism embodies. Based on interviews and ethnographic observations of two Republican groups over the course of the 2018 Virginia gubernatorial race-including the author's firsthand experience of the 2017 Unite the Right rally-the book considers how Google algorithms, YouTube playlists, pundits, and politicians can manipulate audiences, reaffirm beliefs, and expose audiences to more extremist ideas, blurring the lines between reality and fiction.

Village Elites and Social Structures in the Late Medieval Campine Region By Eline Van Onacker
2017 | 362 Pages | ISBN: 2503554598 | PDF | 3 MB
The economy of the late medieval Low Countries is often portrayed in terms of dynamism and economic growth. However, several regions within this larger entity followed an alternate path of development. One example of this is the Campine (Kempen), a communal peasant region situated to the northeast of the sixteenth-century 'metropolis' of Antwerp. By contrast with other regions in the Low Countries, this area was characterised by a remarkable stability. By focusing on 'independent' peasant elites, this study explores the social structures and the characteristics of inequality of this region, showing how these factors led to a different, more stable mode of economic development. Looking past standard societal measurements such as property distribution, this work combines a wide variety of sources to grasp the nuances of inequality in a communal society. It therefore takes into account other economic factors such as control over the commons, and market integration. It also focuses on political and social inequality, shedding light on aspects of inequality in village politics, social life, and poor relief. Thus, in contrast to dominant depictions of pre-modern societies on the road to capitalism, this book provides a comprehensive portrayal of inequality and elite groups in a communal peasant society.

Collectif, "Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK"
2005 | ISBN: 1403935793 | English | PDF | 374 pages | 10.4 MB
[quote]Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK is a cross-national study of business elites and corporate governance in France and the UK. It examines corporate governance from a comparative standpoint and looks beneath the surface at the exercise of power and authority in two distinct national business systems. It explores key issues concerning business elites, their networks, recruitment and reproduction. It aims to shed light on the mechanisms that govern the stability and regeneration of business elites against the backdrop of an increasingly global economy.