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Verlagsinfo: "Happiness in World History traces ideas and experiences of happiness from early stages in human history, to the maturation of agricultural societies and their religious and philosophical systems, to the changes and diversities in the approach to happiness in the modern societies that began to emerge in the 18th century. In this thorough overview, Peter N. Stearns explores the interaction between psychological and historical findings about happiness, the relationship between ideas and popular experience, and the opportunity to use historical analysis to assess strengths and weaknesses of dominant contemporary notions of happiness. Starting with the advent of agriculture, the book assesses major transitions in history for patterns in happiness, including the impact of the great religions, the unprecedented Enlightenment interest in secular happiness and cheerfulness, and industrialization and imperialism. The final, contemporary section covers fascist and communist efforts to define alternatives to Western ideas of happiness, the increasing connections with consumerism, and growing global interests in defining and promoting well-being. Touching on the experiences in the major regions of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and North America, the text offers an expansive introduction to a new field of study. This book will be of interest to students of world history and the history of emotions"--

Vor einer Trivialisierung des Holocaust warnend, bezeichnete Claude Lanzmann vor acht Jahren den Regisseur Steven Spielberg als "eine Art big brother der Erinnerung". Damit gehörte Lanzmann zu einem Kreis von Historikern, Publizisten und Gedenkstättenmitarbeitern, die massive Kritik an Spielbergs ambitioniertem Vorhaben äußerten, weltweit möglichst viele Überlebende des Holocaust zu befragen. Die Gegenstimmen waren vielfältig und bezogen sich unter anderem auf die in den 1990er-Jahren noch gewöhnungsbedürftige Tatsache, dass Spielberg die digitalisierten Videointerviews in einem computergestützten, internetfähigen Riesenarchiv des Holocaust speichern wollte. Zudem bestand die Sorge, Spielbergs Medienpräsenz und erfolgreiche Sponsorenwerbung werde dazu führen, dass anderen, seit Jahrzehnten arbeitenden Oral-History-Projekten keinerlei Förderung mehr zukomme. Beanstandet wurde auch, dass nicht professionell ausgebildete Personen als Interviewer eingesetzt wurden. Wegen der hohen Zahl archivierter Aussagen von Überlebenden werde sich der inhaltliche Fokus von den Getöteten hin zu jenen verschieben, die der Ermordung entgangen waren. So werde die Geschichte des Holocaust als Geschichte eines Triumphs erzählt, die sie historisch nicht sei. Die Interviews seien darauf angelegt, genau jene Gefühle hervorzurufen, die Raul Hilberg für unlauter hielt: "There is nothing to be taken from the Holocaust that imbues anyone with hope or any thought of redemption." Tatsächlich kann die Interviewsammlung Spielbergs vielzitierten und wegen seiner Assoziation zu verbrannten Leichen etwas obszön wirkenden Anspruch, "jedes Körnchen Asche" aufzusammeln, nicht einlösen. Denn diejenigen, die sprechen können, haben, wie Primo Levi es nannte, "den tiefsten Punkt des Abgrunds" nicht berührt. Deutlich wird jedoch Spielbergs nachdrücklicher, fast obsessiv wirkender Versuch, vergehende Erinnerungen an den Holocaust vor dem Vergessen bannen zu wollen.

The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Part One: Introduction -- 1 What's new? -- 2 How to do it: identify your practice development needs and your associated learning needs -- 3 What methods could you use to identify your practice development and learning needs? -- 4 The plan: where do you want to be and how do you get there? -- 5 Setting your priorities for developing clinical governance -- 6 You have identified your learning needs: wha thappens now? -- 7 Baseline review -- Part Two: The 14 themes of clinical governance -- Module 1 Establishing and sustaining a learning culture -- Module 2 Managing resources and services -- Module 3 Establishing and disseminating a research and development culture -- Module 4 Reliable and accurate data -- Module 5 Evidence-based practice and policy -- Module 6 Confidentiality -- Module 7 Health gain -- Module 8 Coherent teamwork -- Module 9 Audit and evaluation -- Module 10 Meaningful patient involvement -- Module 11 Health promotion -- Module 12 Risk management -- Module 13 Accountability and performance -- Module 14 Core requirements -- Part Three: Quality improvement -- The challenges of qualit yimprovement -- Appendix: resources -- Index