Through a series of events taken from her own life, Bailey here demonstrates that the power of God is still alive and well, and that miracles are not confined to the Old Testament. Through her belief in God, she has been chosen to witness certain visions and signs of His love in order to provide comfort and guidance to herself and her loved ones.

Bailey describes how the Sea of Okhotsk area became integrated into a world system of economic and cultural ties between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. This happened primarily because of maritime explorations, travel, and trade, which led to increased connections with both Russia and Japan. Individual chapters of the book provide analyses of historical sources which describe cross-cultural encounters and changes in the Sea of Okhotsk area. This includes analyses of explorers and travellers who traversed the region for commerce, exploration, diplomacy, and possible colonization. Historical sources are explored from the different perspectives of Russians, Japanese, Indigenous peoples, and international observers from Western countries. Cross-cultural encounters in the region among these groups led to collaboration, syncretism, and resistance, sometimes violent and sometimes peaceful. The last chapter discusses how some international travellers and foreign residents of Hokkaidō described the area at the end of the nineteenth century. Their perspectives confirm that Hokkaidō had become a fully colonized space. An essential resource for students and scholars of cross-cultural studies, Russian history, Japanese history, and Ainu and Indigenous history.

Approaching Recent World History Through Film: Context, Analysis, and Research explores the relationships between twentieth-century world history and film by providing analysis of a diverse range of films organized by global history topics, including war and conflict, decolonization, political economy, and long-distance travel. This insightful text describes how to analyze films as original historical sources and how to carry out research projects using films. The text provides guidance on the types of world history films, their conventions, and how to analyze the historical arguments in movies. Scott C.M. Bailey incorporates in-depth discussions of the historical content and context of a wide range of international films connected with important twentieth-century global history topics. The book also offers many prompts for discussion, historical timelines, and suggestions for further reading and viewing, as well as instructions on how to construct research papers and projects which employ the use of films as historical sources. This book will be of interest to students in world history and film history courses.

Approaching Recent World History Through Film: Context, Analysis, and Research explores the relationships between twentieth-century world history and film by providing analysis of a diverse range of films organized by global history topics, including war and conflict, decolonization, political economy, and long-distance travel. This insightful text describes how to analyze films as original historical sources and how to carry out research projects using films. The text provides guidance on the types of world history films, their conventions, and how to analyze the historical arguments in movies. Scott C.M. Bailey incorporates in-depth discussions of the historical content and context of a wide range of international films connected with important twentieth-century global history topics. The book also offers many prompts for discussion, historical timelines, and suggestions for further reading and viewing, as well as instructions on how to construct research papers and projects which employ the use of films as historical sources. This book will be of interest to students in world history and film history courses.

Through a series of events taken from her own life, Bailey here demonstrates that the power of God is still alive and well, and that miracles are not confined to the Old Testament. Through her belief in God, she has been chosen to witness certain visions and signs of His love in order to provide comfort and guidance to herself and her loved ones. At the same time she has produced an appealing portrait of life as a nurse in England during and after the Second World War. C M Bailey trained for two years in orthopaedics and four years in general nursing to gain her Hospital and State Certificates. She believes that good nursing practice cannot be learned in a lecture room or from text books - it is an innate gift, and that those privileged to be nurses follow a noble tradition and should remember that an ill person deserves, and should receive, unstinting care.

Have you ever lost your keys and found them in the most unlikely place? Or seen meaningful visions that no one else can? For C M Bailey such occurrences have been part of daily life for many years. Objects moved to bizarre locations, premonitions about loved ones and messages from the recently departed have, despite initial scepticism, finally forced her to acknowledge that she has a heightened spiritual awareness, that she is being communicated with from beyond and most comfortingly that she is being watched over, just as the Bible promised. After all, not a sparrow falls.