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This book traces the story of how and why thousands of Scots made
money from buying and selling humans... a story we need to own. We
need to admit that many Scots were enthusiastic participants in
slavery. Union with England gave Scotland access to both trade and
settlement in Jamaica, Britain's richest colony and its major slave
trading hub. Tens of thousands from Scotland lived and worked
there. The abolition campaign and slave revolts threatened Scottish
plantation owners, merchants, traders, bankers and insurance
brokers who made their fortunes from slave-farmed sugar in Jamaica
and fought hard to preserve the system of slavery. Archives and
parliamentary papers in both countries reveal these transatlantic
Scots in their own words and allow us to access the lives of their
captives. Scotland and Jamaica were closely entwined for over one
hundred years. Bought & Sold traces this shared story from its
early beginnings in the 1700s to the abolition of slavery in the
British Empire and reflects on the meaning of those years for both
nations today.
A comprehensive textbook providing a complete overview of the
multifaceted nature of public health practice. It explores all
aspects of public health from communities and wider society, child
development and early relationships, inequalities in health,
safeguarding, the rapidly changing nature of society and the
significance of culture, equality and diversity. The book takes a
life-span approach and makes direct links to the UK health and
social care context and has been written for an interprofessional
audience. It will be essential reading for health and social care
students including nurses and midwives, allied health care
professionals, social care workers, qualified health and social
care practitioners and anyone who plays a role in understanding,
promoting, and protecting public health. Key features:
Comprehensive, wide-ranging coverage Addresses the realities of
public health in a globalised world Applied to the UK four nation
context but also considers the global dimension of public health
practice
A comprehensive textbook providing a complete overview of the
multifaceted nature of public health practice. It explores all
aspects of public health from communities and wider society, child
development and early relationships, inequalities in health,
safeguarding, the rapidly changing nature of society and the
significance of culture, equality and diversity. The book takes a
life-span approach and makes direct links to the UK health and
social care context and has been written for an interprofessional
audience. It will be essential reading for health and social care
students including nurses and midwives, allied health care
professionals, social care workers, qualified health and social
care practitioners and anyone who plays a role in understanding,
promoting, and protecting public health. Key features:
Comprehensive, wide-ranging coverage Addresses the realities of
public health in a globalised world Applied to the UK four nation
context but also considers the global dimension of public health
practice
Even before Operation IRAQI FREEDOM began, the Strategic Studies
Institute (SSI) published a monograph about planning for transition
to Phase IV operations. Now that we are 3 years beyond the start of
that transition, the debate continues about the adequacy of
planning for and proficiency of execution of Phase IV operations in
Iraq and elsewhere. The debate most often surrounds three issues
concerning this final operational phase: the relationship to
preceding operational phases; responsibility for planning; and
responsibility for execution. Inevitably, the interagency process
becomes central to addressing each of these issues. A colloquium on
"U.S. Military Operations in Iraq: Planning, Combat, and
Occupation" was held November 2, 2005, and was co-sponsored by SSI
and Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
An exceptional combination of scholars, practitioners, and
policymakers examined persistent issues central to the important
and ongoing debate surrounding the colloquium theme.
Novelist, travel writer, and essayist Helen Hunt Jackson
(1830-1885) was one of the most successful authors and most
passionate intellects of her day. Ralph Waldo Emerson also regarded
her as one of America's greatest poets. Today Jackson is best
remembered for "Ramona, " a romantic novel set in the rural
Southern Californian Indian and "Californio" communities of her
day. "Ramona, " continuously in print for over a century, has
become a cultural icon, but Jackson's prolific career left us with
much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work
as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This
long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times
reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and
restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.
Discussing much new material, Kate Phillips makes extensive use of
Jackson's unpublished private correspondence. She takes us from
Jackson's early years in rural New England to her later pioneer
days in Colorado and to her adventerous travels in Europe and
Southern California. The book also gives the first in-depth
discussions of Jackson's writing in every genre, her beliefs about
race and religion, and the significance of her chronic illnesses.
Phillips also discusses Jackson's intimate relationships--with her
two husbands, her mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the famed
actress Charlotte Cushman, and the poet Emily Dickinson. Phillips
concludes with a re-evaluation of "Ramona, "discussing the novel as
the earliest example of the California dystopian tradition in its
portrayal of a state on the road to self-destruction, a tradition
carried further by writers like Nathanael West and Joan Didion.
In this gripping biography, Phillips offers fascinating glimpses of
how social context both shaped and inspired Jackson's thinking,
highlighting the inextricable presence of gender, race, and class
in American literary history and culture and opening a new window
onto the nineteenth century.
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