Author: Sir William Denison
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Sir William Thomas Denison
Publisher:
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Lillian Estelle Fisher
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Dr. Frances Carruthers with Martin Duffy
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178901400X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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By the start of the 20th century many Irish people were living in squalor: the country's infant mortality rate was the highest in Europe and tuberculosis was rampant. The daunting and tireless Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, wife of the British Viceroy to Ireland, devoted herself to social changes that could save lives. But she often faced ridicule because of the contrast between her own high status and her concern for the common man. Arthur Griffith, future president of Ireland, publicly nicknamed her The Viceregal Microbe. This book tells the story of the friction between the struggle for Irish independence and the 'good works' of the Anglo-Irish elite. The mainly Protestant and upper-class women who gathered around Lady Aberdeen through the Women's National Health Association she founded were all fine people with good hearts. But Irish Nationalists treated them with suspicion, and progress in the war against tuberculosis was the casualty. Lady Abderdeen became ever more radical in her campaign for better living conditions for Ireland's poor. The Chief Medical Officer of the Guinness Brewery, John Lumsden, was one of her close allies. By the end of her decades of work (most intensely 1906-1915) in Ireland, Ishbel Aberdeen became as out-spoken as the trade union rebel 'Big Jim' Larkin. She was a strong woman and often alienated people by her relentlessness. She drove herself to exhaustion and her family almost to bankruptcy in her campaign for a better life for Ireland's poor. But in the end she was doomed to be viewed as part of the system of British rule over Ireland. And history belongs to the victor. The contribution of Lady Aberdeen and her volunteers to the welfare of Ireland's poor and sick was largely forgotten in the wake of the country's independence and its nationalist fervour.

Author: Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826334598
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.

Author: Margaret Mary Feudge
Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Ireland. Poor Law Reform Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Author: George William Frederick HOWARD (7th Earl of Carlisle.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: Philip Payton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781743058534
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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In this highly readable and revelatory account of the Governors of South Australia, leading historian Philip Payton charts the evolution of the vice-regal role from foundation in 1836 to the present day, setting the development of this distinguished office against the backdrop of the State's often dramatic history.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004335579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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This book presents a historical overview of colonial Mexico City and the important role it played in the creation of the early modern Hispanic world.