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Free Download Paul G. Halpern, "The Naval War in the Mediterranean: 1914-1918 "
English | ISBN: 1138933279 | 2017 | 632 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume, originally published in 1987, fills a gap in a neglected area. Looking at the entire war in the Mediterrean, the volume examines the war from the viewpoint of all the important participants, making full use of archives and manuscript collections in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria and the United States. A fascinating mosaic of campaigns emerges in the Adriatic, Straits of Otranto and the Eastern Aegean. The German assistance to the tribes of Libya, the threat that Germany would get her hands on the Russian Black Sea Fleet and use it in the Mediterreanean, and the appearance and influence of the Americans in 1918 all took place against a background of rivalry between the Allies which frustrated the appointment of Jellicoe in 1918 as supreme command at sea in a role similar to that of Foch on land.

Free Download The Nature of Space By Milton Santos; Brenda Baletti; Susanna Hecht
2021 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1478013486 | PDF | 16 MB
In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend fragmented realities and partial truths without trying to theorize their way around them. Based on these premises, Santos examines the role of space, which he defines as indissoluble systems of objects and systems of actions in social processes, while providing a geographic contribution to the production of a critical social theory.

Free Download Liu Li, "The National Games and National Identity in China: A History "
English | ISBN: 036734503X | 2019 | 124 pages | EPUB | 793 KB
The history of China's National Games reflects both the transformation of elite sport in China and wider Chinese society. This is the first book to describe the origins and development of the National Games through their dynamic relationship with Chinese politics, nationalism and identity in the modern era.

Free Download Maria Bucur, "The Nation's Gratitude: World War I and Citizenship Rights in Interwar Romania "
English | ISBN: 0367749785 | 2021 | 246 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A pioneering work for the history of veterans' rights in Romania, this study brings into focus the laws and policies the state developed in response to the unprecedented human losses in World War I. It features in lively and accessible language the varied responses of veterans, widows and orphans to those policies. The analysis emphasizes how ordinary citizens became educated about and used state institutions in ways that highlight the class, ethnic, religious and gender norms of the day. The book offers a vivid case study of how disability as a personal reality for many veterans became a point of policy making, a story that has seen little scholarly interest despite the enormous populations affected by these developments. Overall, the monograph shows how, in the postwar European states, citizenship as engaged practice was shaped by both government policies and the interpretation a large and varied group of beneficiaries gave to these policies. The analysis provides insights of great interest to scholars of these themes, while it offers examples of engaged citizenship useful for an undergraduate and nonspecialist audience.

Free Download Natascha Adamowsky, "The Mysterious Science of the Sea, 1775-1943 "
English | ISBN: 1032098465 | 2021 | 256 pages | EPUB | 873 KB
The depths of the oceans are the last example of terra incognita on earth. Adamowsky presents a study of the sea, arguing that - contrary to popular belief - post-Enlightenment discourse on the sea was still subject to mystery and wonder, and not wholly rationalized by science.

Free Download Robert Dominguez, "The Mysterious Final Flight of MH-370: The Most Fascinating, Anomalous Mystery Disappearance in a Century Since the Sink"
English | ISBN: 1642587834 | 2019 | 206 pages | EPUB | 958 KB
When we board a modern twenty-first century aircraft, we are all confident of, hopefully, a smooth flight, and delivery, to our destination of choice.

Free Download Yoko Yonezawa, "The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese "
English | ISBN: 9027210500 | 2021 | 226 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The use of the second person singular pronoun anata 'you' in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded meaning in anata, under the assumption that all Japanese personal reference terms involve social indexicality. This book takes a new approach, revealing that

Free Download John Ibson, "The Mourning After: Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men"
English | ISBN: 022657654X | 2018 | 272 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these intimacies faced both scorn and vicious homophobia. The Mourning After makes sense of this cruel irony, telling the story of the unmeasured toll exacted upon generations of male friendships. John Ibson draws evidence from the contrasting views of male closeness depicted in WWII-era fiction by Gore Vidal and John Horne Burns, as well as from such wide-ranging sources as psychiatry texts, child development books, the memoirs of veterans' children, and a slew of vernacular snapshots of happy male couples. In this sweeping reinterpretation of the postwar years, Ibson argues that a prolonged mourning for tenderness lost lay at the core of midcentury American masculinity, leaving far too many men with an unspoken ache that continued long after the fighting stopped, forever damaging their relationships with their wives, their children, and each other.

Free Download Joseph L. Sanders, "The Moscow Uprising of December, 1905: A Background Study "
English | ISBN: 1138227382 | 2019 | 876 pages | EPUB | 510 KB
This book, originally published in 1987, focuses on the factors which contributed to the Moscow uprising of December 1905, by comprehensively surveying a vast field of both Russian and English language literature on the subject. In order to explain why the uprising occurred in Moscow when it did, the author discusses the contributions of the Bolsheviks, the Mensheviks, the Soviet-Revolutionaries and the government, concluding that the uprising happened at that time because the parties were committed to it and agitated for it and the local government in Moscow was not in control of the situation.

Free Download Andrew Chandler, "The Moral Imperative: New Essays On The Ethics Of Resistance In National Socialist Germany 1933-1945"
English | ISBN: 0367294133 | 2019 | 136 pages | EPUB | 414 KB
This book covers the history of the German resistance and explores a number of the moral codes which inspired, justified and sustained the resisting conscience in the Third Reich. It argues that the position of the churches was characterised by 'fluctuations, ambivalences, and contradictions'.