Sandra Walklate, "Murder: Social and historical approaches to understanding murder and murderers"
English | 2006 | pages: 189 | ISBN: 1843921693, 1843921707 | PDF | 4,0 mb
This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. It incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder.

How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRYJ6V5W | 2023 | 10 hours and 15 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin
Narrator: Adam Barr
Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and colonialism. Pieces of each of these theories help explain key events on the path to modern riches.

Anthony D. Fredericks, "Historical Trails of Eastern Pennsylvania"
English | ISBN: 1581571836 | 2013 | 336 pages | EPUB | 46 MB
A terrific guide to the history of Eastern Pennsylvania and its environs.

Metaphysics of Science: A Systematic and Historical Introduction by Markus Schrenk
English | August 16, 2016 | ISBN: 184465592X, 1844655938 | True EPUB | 348 pages | 1.98 MB
Metaphysics and science have a long but troubled relationship. In the twentieth century the Logical Positivists argued metaphysics was irrelevant and that philosophy should be guided by science. However, metaphysics and science attempt to answer many of the same, fundamental questions: What are laws of nature? What is causation? What are natural kinds?

Tolstoy On War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace" By Rick McPeak (editor), Donna Tussing Orwin (editor)
2012 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0801448980 | PDF | 4 MB
In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers of today. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the French invasion of Russia and acknowledge the importance of Tolstoy's novel for our historical memory of its central events, Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin have assembled a distinguished group of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds―literary criticism, history, social science, and philosophy―to provide fresh readings of the novel. The essays in Tolstoy On War focus primarily on the novel's depictions of war and history, and the range of responses suggests that these remain inexhaustible topics of debate. The result is a volume that opens fruitful new avenues of understanding War and Peace while providing a range of perspectives and interpretations without parallel in the vast literature on the novel.

Historical roots of industrial entrepreneurship in India and Japan: A comparative interpretation By Dwijendra Tripathi
1997 | 162 Pages | ISBN: 8173041962 | PDF | 4 MB
This study on comparative entrepreneurship concentrates on the differential scenario in respect of emergence, perception and exploration of industrial opportunities during the formative period of industrialisation in India and Japan. Interpretating the available data against an integrated framework, the study offers refreshing conclusions about the entrepreneurial behaviour in India and Japan.

Criminalization of Activism: Historical, Present and Future Perspectives By Valeria Vegh Weis (editor)
2021 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0367700123 | PDF | 4 MB
Criminalization of Activism draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalisation over time. Contributors are made of up scholars and activist from different disciplinary backgrounds, with a balance between authors from the Global North and the Global South. An introduction frames the topic within critical criminology, while also highlighting the possible disciplinary approaches and definitions of criminalization of resistance/activism. The editors also look into the particularities of the current times in comparison to dynamics of criminalization in prior stages of capitalism. The first part offers four different theoretical approaches to understand the complex interrelations between politics and criminalization of resistance. Second, the book offers case studies to expose certain historical patterns in the criminalization of riots, experiences of resistance and class struggle. This includes an analysis of the cast system in India, neoliberalism and social inequality in Argentina and refugees in Italy and Greece. The third part of the book deals with three further case studies which expose trends in the historical criminalization of policing and prison related struggles, analysing prison riots in the United States and Argentina, and the civil rights movement confronting police brutality in the United States. Part four provides insight into historical patterns in the criminalization of political activities, with case studies on Italian leftist activism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Catalonian struggle for independence. The last part of the book deals with the criminalization of green struggles, examining the green ban in Australia, indigenous struggles in Brazil and Ecuador and environmental demonstrations in Belgium. Finally, the conclusion analyses the interactions between the different contributions and discusses the future challenges to this field of study. Bringing together a range of criminalisation themes into a single volume, compromising historical criminology, indigenous studies, gender studies, critical criminology, southern criminology, convict criminology and green criminology, it will be of great interest to scholars and students of criminology and sociology, as well as those involved in activism.

Peter Seixas, "Theorizing Historical Consciousness"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0802087132 | PDF | pages: 264 | 90.7 mb
Our understanding of the past shapes our sense of the present and the future: this is historical consciousness. While academic history, public history, and the study of collective memory are thriving enterprises, there has been only sparse investigation of historical consciousness itself, in a way that relates it to the policy questions it raises in the present. With Theorizing Historical Consciousness, Peter Seixas has brought together a diverse group of international scholars to address the problem of historical consciousness from the disciplinary perspectives of history, historiography, philosophy, collective memory, psychology, and history education.

Schubring G. Analysing Historical Mathematics Textbooks 2023 | 7.09 MB
English | 213 Pages

Title: Analysing Historical Mathematics Textbooks
Author: Lois Lowry
Year: 1989

Euroscepticisms: The Historical Roots of a Political Challenge: 36 (European Studies) By Mark Gilbert, Daniele Pasquinucci
2020 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 9004375341 | PDF | 5 MB
Euroscepticism has become a political challenge of imposing size. Almost every major European country has a political party that is openly opposed to the EU. This book aims to investigate the historical origins of Euroscepticism in an apposite range of EU countries.