Suchergebnisse

"The first global intellectual history of the rise and spread of the modern international system. Providing a new understanding of that system and its contemporary functions, this book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of international relations, international law, intellectual and global history, and historical sociology"--

This book brings together key, incisive writings (published and unpublished) of the late Andre Gunder Frank on world development and world history. The selections provide the reader with a historical tracing of Gunder Frank's conceptual thinking on development, through to his views on world history, world development and globalization.

Health cooperatives (the model that was developed in Serbia in the 19th century) can be considered as "Serbian invention" and the first model of that kind (according to available documentation). Health cooperatives had an immense impact on society, as those cooperatives used to solve numerous healthcare, public health, educational, demographic, and other problems after the First World War (and previous Balkan wars 1912–1913). That concept was so successful that numerous delegations from the USA to India and from Poland to Japan visited Serbia to understand the concept and then to transfer it to their home countries. Historically looking, there are not so many innovative solutions (especially in the area of state policy and administration) that have been transferred from Serbia to the developed western countries, but health cooperatives were such phenomena. In order to create health cooperatives, Serbian experts worked together with politicians, administrative state bodies, professional elites, and the population itself. The model was recognized as the one that responded successfully to the problems Serbia was facing at that time (19th and early 20th century). It seems that history as science did not recognize the importance of health cooperatives in an adequate way, and its overall impact on society as well as its international contribution. This scientific monograph represents The Initiative for Opening Health Cooperatives in the Republic of Serbia (further on: The Initiative) submitted to the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia. The initiative is based on many years of active research on the topic of health cooperatives by the author. The initiative was submitted to the Parliament in order to emphasize the importance of health cooperatives today, historical aspects of cooperatives in Serbia, and to request a public hearing on this emerging topic. This initiative is the first of its kind since 1949 when health cooperatives in Serbia were abolished and included in the public health care system. Therefore, this ...

The UC Santa Cruz Library announces its publication of a groundbreaking new book, SEEDS OF SOMETHING DIFFERENT: AN ORAL HISTORY OF UC SANTA CRUZ that weaves together first-person accounts of the campus's evolution, from the origins of an audacious dream through the sea changes of five decades.More than 200 narrators contribute to this two-volume collective chronicle, edited by oral historians Irene Reti, Cameron Vanderscoff, and Sarah Rabkin. Five years in the making, the book draws on the Library Regional History Project's extensive archive of oral history interviews with students, staff, faculty, community members, and campus leaders. The text is accompanied by some 250 images from the University Library's Special Collections and Archives.Seeds of Something Different sheds new light on UCSC's first half-century. In advance praise for this dynamic account, UCSC alumna and noted radio producer Nikki Silva wrote, "I kept marveling, 'So that's what was happening!' I could not put it down."The book offers useful insights not only for readers who know and love the campus, but for anyone who cares about the past and future of public higher education. As University of Pennsylvania Professor of Education and History Jonathan Zimmerman notes in his foreword, "the University of California, Santa Cruz [is] the largest—and, arguably, the most important—educational experiment in the history of American higher education . . . part of a remarkable wave of innovation in the 1960s, when at least forty different alternative colleges and universities sprouted across the United States."Since its inception, UC Santa Cruz has, like the cultural and political milieu it both reflects and influences, undergone profound transformation. In contrast to tales of either tragic decline or triumphant reinvention that the campus tends to inspire, Seeds of Something Different offers a nuanced telling of UCSC's complex and sometimes contradictory history. This is a story in multiple acts, featuring multiple perspectives, complete with recurring characters, surprising plot twists, unlikely endings, and new beginnings.

This book advances a local, regional, and comparative analysis of the history of the sixty-eighters from Hungary and Romania between 1956 and 1975. The aim of the book is to answer to the following research question: to what extent does 'the long 1968' mark and change protest history? Another axis of my research, equally important, is: how can one genuinely distinguish between a protest, an opposition, and a pastime? Where did radicalisation truly begin, and when was it solely an auto-perception as a dissident? In other words, how can one truly distinguish between a leisure activity like listening to Radio Free Europe or exploring an altered state of consciousness, and an explicit political activity like organising a protest or writing subversive texts? Among other aims, the books's scope is to understand where a leisure activity ends, and a protest starts. By 'practicing counterculture,' did the youth wish to contest the system or simply express themselves? As method, oral history plays a crucial part. On a superficial level, the interviews helped to fill in the archival gap. However, oral testimonies proved to reveal much more than essential factual information. Oral history clarified how political and social events influenced the subjects' memory formation.

Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia. Breaching the divide between different area studies, the book provides nine case studies covering the area between the eastern edge of Asia and Eastern Europe, including the former Russian, Ottoman, Qing, and Japanese Empires as well as their successor states. In particular, it explores the appeals to concepts of parliamentarism, deliberative decision-making, and constitutionalism; historical practices related to parliamentarism; and political mythologies across Eurasia. It focuses on the historical and "reestablished" institutions of decision-making, which consciously hark back to indigenous traditions and adapt them to the changing circumstances in imperial and postimperial contexts. Thereby, the book explains how representative institutions were needed for the establishment of modernized empires or postimperial states but at the same time offered a connection to the past. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367691271, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licence

Rize (Turkey); history; revolution; 1918-1923

Forced migration is a complex process fraught with emotion. Biographical interviews offer limited scope for translating this process into narratives, yet it is nevertheless reflected in the material in various ways, such as through metaphors. We used interviews and observational material from a qualitative, empirical research project on the "GDR children from Namibia" to explore an analytical procedure that links the reconstruction of narrated and lived biographies (in German: erzählte and erlebte Lebensgeschichte) with reconstructive metaphor analysis. This allowed us to capture the actor's emotional experience via metaphors without losing sight of the complexity of biographical reconstruction.

Introduction: Nationalism before the nation state / Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth -- Johann Joachim Spalding's 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth : church prayers (Kirchengebete), war prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the patriotic and national discourse in late eighteenth-century Germany / Johannes Birgfeld -- Enlightenment dilemmas : nationalism and war in Rudolph Zacharias Becker's Mildheimisches Liederbuch (1799/1815) / Ellen Pilsworth -- "No sensuous requirement that might not be satisfied here to surfeit" : Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Schlegel constructing the German nation in Paris / Caroline Mannweiler -- Femininity, nation and nature : Fanny Tarnow's letters to friends from a journey to Petersburg (1819) / Dagmar Paulus -- Jews for Germany : nineteenth-century Jewish-German intellectuals and the shaping of German national discourse / Anita Bunyan -- Moses Hess : one socialist proto-Zionist's reception of nationalisms in the nineteenth century / Alex Marshall -- Nationalism, regionalism, and liberalism in the literary representation of the anti-Napoleonic "wars of liberation," 1813-71 / Dirk Göttsche -- Learning from France : Ludwig Börne in the 1830s / Ernest Schonfield.

For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of these programs and their impact on society -- from their origins in the Great Society era to the current battles over the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare").These highly accessible essays examine Medicare and Medicaid from their origins as programs for the elderly and poor to their later role as a safety net for the middle class. Along the way, they have served as touchstones for heated debates about economics, social welfare, and the role of government.

"Bye-Bye Charlie is the first publication to interweave a large collection of oral testimony with documentary evidence to record the history of an Australian institution for intellectually disabled people. Established in 1887, Kew Cottages (now Kew Residential Services) is Australia's largest and oldest institution for people with intellectual disability. Originally built to care for children, the institution always housed a range of people from babies to the elderly. 'Bye-Bye Charlie' includes the stories of residents, staff, policymakers, parents and family members. It is a moving and at times distressing portrait of the institution, which traces shifts in attitudes towards the intellectually disabled over time. It concludes with the upcoming closure of the institution next year."--Provided by publisher

Cast of characters -- pt. 1. Containment -- 1. A bad ending -- 2. Containment and its discontents -- 3. This changes everything : the aftermath of 9/11 -- 4. The war of words -- 5. The run-up -- 6. The silence of the lambs -- pt. 2. Into Iraq -- 7. Winning a battle -- 8. How to create an insurgency (1) -- 9. How to create an insurgency (2) -- 10. The CPA : "can't produce anything" -- 11. Getting tough -- 12. The descent into abuse -- pt. 3. The long term -- 13. "The Army of the Euphrates" takes stock -- 14. The Marine Corps files a dissent -- 15. The surprise -- 16. The price paid -- 17. The corrections -- 18. Turnover -- 19. Too little too late? -- Afterword : Betting against history