Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
English Prisons Under Local Government
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
English Local Government: English prisons under local government (with preface by Bernard Shaw)
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: English prisons under local government (with preface by Bernard Shaw)
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: English prisons under local government. 1922
Author: Sidney WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Maladies of Empire
Author: Jim DownsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971728
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of LondonÕs 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence NightingaleÕs contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease. Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of nonconsenting subjectsÑconscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire. Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by surveilling Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission. The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics. Boldly argued and eye-opening, Maladies of Empire gives a full account of the true price of medical progress.
Florence
Author: Edward ChaneyPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472141288
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of Florence The rich and glorious past of one of the best loved cities in the world, Florence, is brought vividly to life for today's visitor in this collection which draws on letters, diaries and memoirs of travellers to Florence and the Florentines themselves. Of all Italian cities, Florence has always had the strongest English accent: the Goncourt brothers in 1855 called it 'ville tout anglaise'. Though that accent is diminished now, Florence remains for the English-speaking traveller what it always has been - one of the best loved, and most visited, of cities. In this Traveller's Reader, Florence's rich and glorious past is brought vividly to life for the tourist of today through the medium of letters, diaries and memoirs of travellers to Florence from past centuries and of the Florentines themselves. The extracts chosen by cultural historain Edward Chaney include: Boccaccio on the Black Death; Vasari on the building of Giotto's Campanile; an eye-witness account of the installation of Michaelangelo's 'David'; the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the Casa Guidi; and D. H. Lawrence and Dylan Thomas on twentieth-century Florentine society. Sir Harold Acton's introduction provides a concise history of the city from its origins, through its zenith as a prosperous city state which, under the Medici, gave birth to the Renaissance, and up to the Arno's devastating flood in 1966. Sir Harold Acton, man of letters, historian, aesthete, novelist and poet, spent most of his life in Florence. Among his best-known books is The Last Medici, Memoirs of an Aesthete.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: English Local Government...
Author: Sidney WebbSupplement to the Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, Reference Department
Author: Free Public Library (Sydney, N.S.W. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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