Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
English | ePub & mobi | 544 Pages | 443.09 Mb
Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe’s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations.
Themes in West Africa's History
335 pages | Sep 22 2010 |ISBN: 085255995X | PDF | 17.5 Mb
There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. This comprehensive collection brings together leading scholars on key themes from West Africa's prehistory to the present. It discusses various disciplinary approaches to West African history, provides overviews of the literature on major topics, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. Part one provides perspectives on West Africa's history from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two provides longue duree perspectives on environment, society, agency and historical change. Part three examines how economic and political developments have shaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. At the end of each chapter is a short list of recommended reading. EMMANUEL KWAKU AKYEAMPONG is Professor of History at Harvard University North America: Ohio U Press; Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services
Dominoes: Level 1: 400 Word Vocabulary The Wild West /by John Escott, Bill Bowler, Sue Parminter. How much do you know about the Wild West? What do you know about cowboys and Indians, about wagon trails and gunfights?
How the Brits Rocked America: Go West HDTVrip
English | MKV | H264 996 kbps 25 fps | 832x464 | AC3 128 kbps 48 KHz | 2.04 GB Genre: Documentary
How British bands thrived amid the culture of excess that began to dominate rock music in the 1970s. The programme examines how Cream broke into the American market during the late 1960s, before Led Zeppelin achieved even greater success at the start of the 1970s, fundamentally altering the sound of rock as a result. The programme also recalls the 1974 California Jam, where acts including Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer played to an estimated crowd of one million people, and charts the rise of arena rock concerts during the decade. With contributions by Jimmy Page, Jack Bruce, Paul McCartney, Tony Iommi, John Lord, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman and Jeff Lynne
Dn Loops - West Coast Swagg (WAV/ACID/REX/AIFF) | 664MB
'West Coast Swagg' delivers five banging Construction Kits in the style of West Coast legend Tech N9ne. This hard-hitting product is available in ACID/WAV, Apple Loops and REX formats. Take your West Coast productions to the next level!
YnK Audio - West Coast Radio 3 (WAV/REX/ACID/AIFF) | 729MB
'West Coast Radio 3' from YnK Audio is a funky collection of five Construction Kits, inspired by West Coast artist such as Snoop Dog, E-40, Nate Dog, Warren G, The Game, and many more! 'West Coast Radio 3' is perfect for even the most demanding West Coast producer.
BBC - How the Brits Rocked America: Go West (2012) DVDRip x264 AC3-MVGroup
English | 3x~59min | H264 | 832x464 | 25.00fps 1645 Kbps | AC3 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 4.09 GiB Genre: Documentary
A three-parter about British pop acts that have flourished Stateside. In recent decades, UK bands’ trips across the Atlantic have been dogged by indifference – not so in the 1960s, which is where this series begins. Graham Nash of the Hollies, Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, Eric Burdon of the Animals and, if you please, Paul McCartney are all interviewed, recalling the British Invasion.
PBS - Sumo: East and West (2003) PDTV x264 AAC-MVGroup
English | 00:52:55 | H264 | 736x420 | 25.00fps 1313 Kbps | AAC 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 496MB Genre: Documentary
Documentary offering a rare opportunity to go inside the cloistered and secretive world of sumo, where the historical clash between East and West plays out in the story of the Western outsiders who have entered this quintessentially Japanese institution. Sumo is not only Japan's national sport, but also a centuries-old cultural treasure that is part of the Shinto religion. Since the 1970s however, the success of bigger, heavier Hawaiian wrestlers has marked a controversial change in the sport.
In the first half of the twentieth century Britishness was an integral part of the culture that pervaded life in the colonial Caribbean. Caribbean peoples were encouraged to identify with social structures and cultural values touted as intrinsically British. Many middle-class West Indians of colour duly adopted Britishness as part of their own identity. Yet, as Anne Spry Rush explains in Bonds of Empire, even as they re-fashioned themselves, West Indians recast Britishness in their own image, basing it on hierarchical ideas of respectability that were traditionally British, but also on more modern expectations of racial and geographical inclusiveness. Britain became the focus of an imperial British identity, an identity which stood separate from, and yet intimately related to, their strong feelings for their tropical homelands.
