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 The Making of a Patriot: Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit By Sheila L. Skemp 2013 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0195386566 | PDF | 2 MB On January 29, 1774, Benjamin Franklin was called to appear before the Privy Council--a select group of the king's advisors--in an octagonal-shaped room in Whitehall Palace known as the Cockpit. Spurred by jeers and applause from the audience in the Cockpit, Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn unleashed a withering tirade against Franklin. Though Franklin entered the room as a dutiful servant of the British crown, he left as a budding American revolutionary. In The Making of a Patriot, renowned Franklin historian Sheila L. Skemp presents an insightful, lively narrative that goes beyond the traditional Franklin biography--and behind the common myths--to demonstrate how Franklin's ultimate decision to support the colonists was by no means a foregone conclusion. In fact, up until the Cockpit ordeal, he was steadfastly committed to achieving "an accommodation of our differences."The Making of a Patriot sheds light on the conspiratorial framework within which actors on both sides of the Atlantic moved toward revolution. It highlights how this event ultimately pitted Franklin against his son, suggesting that the Revolution was, in no small part, also a civil war.  The Local: A Legal Thriller by Joey Hartstone English | June 14, 2022 | ISBN: 0385547811 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 1.5 MB A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas.  Henry Buckley, "The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War" English | ISBN: 1780764294 | 2013 | 448 pages | PDF | 88 MB In 1940, The Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting from the Spanish Civil War. The copies of the book, stored in a warehouse in London, were destroyed during the Blitz and only a handful of copies of his unique chronicle were saved. Now, 70 years after its first publication, this exceptional eyewitness account of the war is republished with a new introduction by Paul Preston.  The League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920-1946 by Harumi Goto-Shibata English | EPUB | 2020 | 297 Pages | ISBN : 9811549672 | 1 MB Well-grounded on abundant Japanese language sources which have been underused, this book uncovers the League of Nations' works in East Asia in the inter-war period. By researching the field of social and other technical issues, namely, the trade in narcotics, the trafficking of women and the work in terms of improving health provision and providing economic advice to Nationalist China, it not only examines their long-term impacts on the international relations in the region but also argues that the League's works challenged the existing imperial order of East and Southeast Asia. The book offers a key read for academics and students of international history and international relations, and others studying Japan or East Asia in the twentieth century.  The Law of Global Digitality by Matthias C. Kettemann, Alexander Peukert English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032073691 | 273 Pages | True PDF | 2.29 MB  The Infra-World by François J. Bonnet, translated by Robin Mackay, Amy Ireland English | September 8, 2017 | ISBN: 099545504X | True EPUB | 98 pages | 0.5 MB Traversing philosophy and the human sciences, literature, cinema, and the visual arts, this book maps out a history where all is chaos, maelstrom, and fog.  The Impossible Us by Sarah Lotz English | March 22, 2022 | ISBN: 0593436776 | True EPUB | 496 pages | 3.2 MB "An utterly delightful epistolary romance....The Impossible Us is that rare 'I laughed, I cried' book."-The New York Times  Tomasz Ceran, "The History of a Forgotten German Camp: Nazi Ideology and Genocide at Szmalcówka " English | ISBN: 1350155373 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 6 MB Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to Nazi ideology. At the outset of World War II, Hitler initiated a process of 'depolonization' (Entpolonisierung) which resulted in the death or displacement of a significant number of Polish people living in Nazi-occupied territories. By examining policies of indirect extermination through a detailed study of Szmalcowka, a 'displacement' camp located in Toru? in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Tomasz Ceran explores the terrible consequences of Nazi ideology. He provides both an in-depth historical account of a little-known camp and an important analysis of Nazi practices and policy-making in the Polish territories which were annexed. A strong addition to World War II literature, Ceran's book is essential reading for scholars and students interested in World War II, Polish History, Nazi ideology and the nature of violence and resilience.  The History of Ukraine and Russia: The Tangled History That Led to Crisis by Marc Vaughn English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B49B9T37 | 170 pages | EPUB | 1.86 Mb THE HISTORY OF UKRAINE AND RUSSIA  The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader edited by Daniel J. McKaughan, Holly Vande Wall English | January 11, 2018 | ISBN: 1474232736, 1474232728 | True PDF | 1098 pages | 63 MB The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. |
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