William Rathbone
Author : Eleanor Florence Rathbone
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 1905
Category : England
ISBN :
Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care
Author : Lynn McDonald
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0889205426
Book Description
This sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale’s considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease prevention. It follows directly from her understanding of social science and broader social reform activities, which were related in Society and Politics (Volume 5). Public Health Care includes a critical edition of Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes, papers on mortality in aboriginal schools and hospitals, and on rural health. It reports much unknown material on Nightingale’s signal contribution of bringing professional nursing into the dreaded workhouse infirmaries. This collection presents letters and notes on a wide range of issues from specific diseases to germ theory, and relates some of her own extensive work as a nurse practitioner, which included organizing referrals to doctors and providing related care. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.
Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery
Author : David Richardson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1846310660
Book Description
As Britain’s dominant port for the slave trade in the eighteenth century, Liverpool is crucial to the study of slavery. And as the engine behind Liverpool’s rapid growth and prosperity, slavery left an indelible mark on the history of the city. This collection of essays, boasting an international roster of leading scholars in the field, sets Liverpool in the wider context of transatlantic slavery. The contributors tackle a range of issues, including African agency, slave merchants and their society, and the abolitionist movement, always with an emphasis on the human impact of slavery.
Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience
Author : Susan Pedersen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300102451
Book Description
When British women demanded the vote in the years before the First World War, they promised to use political rights to remake their country and their world. This is the story of Eleanor Rathbone, the woman who best fulfilled that pledge. Rathbone cut her political teeth in the suffrage movement in Liverpool, spent two decades crafting social reforms for poor women and children, and was for seventeen years their advocate in the House of Commons. She also played a critical role in imperial policymaking and in the opposition to appeasement. In the last decade of her life she sought to rescue Spanish republicans and Jews threatened by Hitler's rise to power. In this important book, Susan Pedersen illuminates both the public and private sides of Rathbone's life while restoring her to her rightful place as the most sophisticated feminist thinker and most effective British woman politician of the first half of the twentieth century.
William Rathbone and the Early History of District Nursing
Author : Gwen Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
Empire of Cotton
Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0375414142
Book Description
"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism, [in which the author explores] how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world"--
Who's who in the Theatre
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Book Description
Liverpool as it was During the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century. 1775 to 1800
Author : Richard Brooke
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Liverpool (England)
ISBN :
Book Description
The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Genealogy
ISBN :
Book Description
John James Audubon
Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400043778
Book Description
John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself. Here Richard Rhodes vividly depicts Audubon’s life and career: his epic wanderings; his quest to portray birds in a lifelike way; his long, anguished separations from his adored wife; his ambivalent witness to the vanishing of the wilderness. John James Audubon: The Making of an American is a magnificent achievement.
