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A contemporary retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the earliest
Welsh manuscripts which date from the 13th century.
The creation of Britain's welfare state in 1948 was an event of
major international importance. Designed to provide a concise
introduction to the evolution of both the structure of the welfare
state and attitudes towards it. Concentrates on five core services:
health care, education, social security, the personal social
services and housing. For each service it examines the original
vision, the attempts to implement this vision, the resulting
complexities and controversies and, above all, the impact on
individual 'customers'. A wide range of documentary evidence is
used, including published and unpublished government sources,
political memoirs, newspaper exposes and personal testimony. -- .
Using a range of primary sources from imperial, colonial and local
government records, Rockefeller Foundation Archives, memoirs and
reports, this study provides the most comprehensive account to date
of public health in Jamaica in the post-emancipation colonial
period to the onset of the Second World War. The account is framed
by two pivotal Jamaican experiences that were vital in
precipitating significant policy changes at the imperial centre. An
examination of the development of the part-time colonial medical
service reveals it to be underresourced and inadequate. Most
Jamaicans accessed Western medical aid through the Poor Law, a
distinguishing feature of the British West Indian colonies, and the
issues around the intermeshing of medical and Poor Law aid is a
vital contextual question. Chapters on the epidemic and endemic
diseases of smallpox and malaria expose the attitudes and the
nature of the responses of government, elites and the medical
services to such threats. The International Health Division of the
Rockefeller Foundation was active in Jamaica from 1919 until 1950.
A detailed analysis of their hookworm campaign, public health
education programme and tuberculosis work contributes to a critical
understanding of this philanthropic endeavour. The contribution of
Jamaica to a new imperial development policy, as exemplified in the
1940 Colonial Development and Welfare Act, is also assessed. A
story of government and elite reluctance to finance public health
services emerges in which Jamaicans were frequently blamed for
their own ill health. Socio-economic causation was sidestepped as
class and race perceptions, underpinned by the legacy of slavery,
held sway.
The themes of this memoir cover the autobiography of an African
American woman's life born in the south during 1930's. It talks
about issues of historical post slavery and focuses on
transformational self-help and the healing of childhood wounds.
This fascinating memior covers a significant period of American
history and shows how one woman found victory through a life led by
Spirit. As a recounting of the important turning points in this
author's life and the lessons that she learned makes this book
effective. Especially inspiring is her decision to leave home and
move to New York City. This set the tone of courage and adventure
through out the book. Another turning point occurred when she found
herself remarried and moving to the Chicago area. Margaret is a
graduate of the Johnnie Colemon Institute's, Chicago, IL, "Better
Living" program and was licensed to teach their metaphysical
principles. The Intensive Program from which Margaret graduated
required six years of study and passing both written and oral
testing. Read how Margaret's journey of living, loving and learning
led her to overcome many obstacles by using the principles that she
learned.
This is the inspiring memoir of a woman raised within the cultural
confines of a Midwestern Catholic upbringing in the 1940s and '50s,
and her life's journey as her consciousness awakens. Her path takes
her through the expectations of the church, a painful marriage with
an undiagnosed bipolar husband, and her food addiction. Desperately
looking for guidance and answers to her innermost questions, she
encounters a series of "gurus"-bringing her unexpected but valuable
lessons that she integrates along the way. And at the age of
sixty-three, she begins to reinvent herself-and a beautiful,
gratifying life of her own begins to unfold. Interwoven throughout
her story are poems that deeply express her feelings in a way that
the reader won't forget. This true story of a woman who learns to
come to terms with herself, thereby opening the door to real
freedom, will benefit readers of all ages.
Things You Need to Hear gathers memories of Arkansans from all over
the state with widely different backgrounds. In their own words,
these people tell of the things they did growing up in the early
twentieth century to get an education, what they ate, how they
managed to get by during difficult times, how they amused
themselves and earned a living, and much more. Some of Margaret
Bolsterli's ""informants,"" as she calls them, are famous (Johnny
Cash, Maya Angelou, Levon Helm, Joycelyn Elders), but many more are
not. Their vivid personal stories have been taken from published
works and from original interviews conducted by Bolsterli. All
together, these tales preserve memories of ways of life that are
compelling, entertaining, and certainly well worth remembering.
In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her
great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who
owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The
news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in
family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but
Chavis's name and race had never been mentioned. With further
exploration Bolsterli found that when Chavis's children crossed the
Mississippi River between 1859 and 1875 for exile in Arkansas, they
passed into the white world, leaving the family's racial history
completely behind. Kaleidoscope is the story of this discovery, and
it is the story, too, of the rise and fall of the Chavis fortunes
in Mississippi, from the family's first appearance on a frontier
farm in 1829 to ownership of over a thousand acres and the slaves
to work them by 1860. Bolsterli learns that in the 1850s, when all
free coloured people were ordered to leave Mississippi or be
enslaved, Jordan Chavis's white neighbours successfully petitioned
the legislature to allow him to remain, unmolested, even as three
of his sons and a daughter moved to Arkansas and Illinois. She
learns about the agility with which the old man balanced on a
tightrope over chaos to survive the war and then take advantage of
the opportunities of newly awarded citizenship during
Reconstruction. The story ends with the family's loss of everything
in the 1870s, after one of the exiled sons returns to Mississippi
to serve in the Reconstruction legislature and a grandson attempts
unsuccessfully to retain possession of the land. In Kaleidoscope,
long-silenced truths are revealed, inviting questions about how
attitudes toward race might have been different in the family and
in America if the truth about this situation and thousands of
others like it could have been told before.
In telling the story of five generations of her family and its farm
in the Arkansas Delta, Margaret Jones Bolsterli brings together her
own research, historical perspective, and family lore as it reaches
her from the days of her great-grandfather down to her nephew. The
result is a family saga that is at once universal and personal,
historical and timeless. During Wind and Rain moves from the land's
acquisition in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the
1927 Flood, the Great Depression, and the drought of 1930 to the
modern considerations of mechanization, fertilizer, pesticides, and
irrigation. The transformation of dense swamp and forest to today's
commercial agriculture is the story of two hundred acres worked by
people sowing their fate with sweat, ingenuity, and luck. From the
hoes of Bolsterli's great-grandfather Uriah's time to her nephew
Casey's machinery capable of cultivating an acre in five minutes,
During Wind and Rain poignantly portrays five generations of
farmers motivated by dreams of "a crop so good that the memory of
it can warm the drafty floors of adversity for the rest of one's
life."
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