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This book, based on twenty-three years of research, field work, and
contacts with both Malians and non-Malians familiar with Mali,
provides an overview of its history, economic development, culture
and society. It is intended for general readers and specialists who
are interested to know about Mali.
The last of the major African lakes to be visited by European
travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the
eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya,
near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana, Lake Rudolf
is a large saltwater body two hundred miles long and forty miles
wide. Fed by the Omo R
This book, based on twenty-three years of research, field work, and
contacts with both Malians and non-Malians familiar with Mali,
provides an overview of its history, economic development, culture
and society. It is intended for general readers and specialists who
are interested to know about Mali.
When Pascal James Imperato, MD, assumed the edi * Exclusion by the
New York State Departm~nt of Health of qualified laboratories from
HIV testmg torship of the New York State Journal of Medicine in
198~, the acquired immunodeficiency syndro. me (AIDS) epI *
Protection of health care workers * Responsibilities of physicians
and other health care demic in the United States was already SIX
years old. Dur ing the time of his editorship, two thematic issues
of the workers Journal have been devoted to AIDS. In addition, a
large * Public education number of original communications have
been regularly * AIDS confidentiality published on the subje~t.
This volume ?rings together The Symposium on AIDS in Washington,
DC, had important articles published on AIDS m the Journal been so
successful that the MSSNY, under the auspices of during 1987 and
1988. . . the task force and the Division of Governmental Affairs,
In the early years of the epidemic the Medical Society of held two
informational symposia for state senators and the State of New York
(MSSNY) was aware that it had a assemblymen and their staffs in
Albany, New York. Thes. e responsibility to both the professi?~ an~
the public to add were presented in February 1988 and. March. 1989.
,!,hIS its efforts to those already mobIlized m the attempt to
effort has convinced the MSSNY that It has given legisla understand
and control this tragic disease. Early on, the tors a better
understanding of the overall AIDS problem.
The last of the major African lakes to be visited by European
travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the
eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya,
near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana, Lake Rudolf
is a large saltwater body two hundred miles long and forty miles
wide. Fed by the Omo River that flows south from the Ethiopian
highlands, it is surrounded by an inhospitable landscape of extinct
volcanoes, wind-driven semidesert, and old lava flows. Because of
the greenish hue of its waters, it has long been called the Jade
Sea."Quest for the Jade Sea" examines the fascinating story of
colonial competition around this remote lake. Pascal James
Imperato's account yields important insights into European colonial
policies in East Africa in the late nineteenth century and how
these policies came into conflict with a powerful indigenous and
independent African state, Ethiopia, which itself was engaged in
imperial expansion.Although the chief competitors for the lake
included the British, Italians, the French, Russians, and
Ethiopians, its colonial fate was decided by Great Britain and
Ethiopia. The role of Ethiopia as a late nineteenth-century
colonial power unfolds as Imperato provides unique insights and
analyses of Ethiopian colonial policy and its effects on the
peoples who inhabited the region of the lake.As well as examining
the political and diplomatic aspects of colonial competition for
Lake Rudolf, "Quest for the Jade Sea" focuses on the expeditions
that traveled there. Many of these were the field expressions of
colonial policy; others were undertaken in the interest of
scientific and geographical discovery. Whatever theimpetus, their
success required courage and much suffering on the part of those
who led them. Whether as willing agents of larger colonial designs,
soldiers intent on promoting their military careers, or explorers
who wished to advance scientific knowledge, expedition leaders left
behind not only fascinating chronicles of their experiences and
discoveries but also parts of the larger story of colonial
competition around an East African lake.
Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been
regarded as the essential international history of public health.
Describing the development of public health in classical Greece,
imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere,
Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field's great
figures. He considers such community health problems as infectious
disease, water supply and sewage disposal, maternal and child
health, nutrition, and occupational disease and injury. And he
assesses the public health landscape of health education, public
health administration, epidemiological theory, communicable disease
control, medical care, statistics, public policy, and medical
geography. Rosen, writing in the 1950s, may have had good reason to
believe that infectious diseases would soon be conquered. But as
Dr. Pascal James Imperato writes in the new foreword to this
edition, infectious disease remains a grave threat. Globalization,
antibiotic resistance, and the emergence of new pathogens and the
reemergence of old ones, have returned public health efforts to the
basics: preventing and controlling chronic and communicable
diseases and shoring up public health infrastructures that provide
potable water, sewage disposal, sanitary environments, and safe
food and drug supplies to populations around the globe. A revised
introduction by Elizabeth Fee frames the book within the context of
the historiography of public health past, present, and future, and
an updated bibliography by Edward T. Morman includes significant
books on public health history published between 1958 and 2014. For
seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public
Health is visionary and essential reading.
A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art
Institute of Chicago's extraordinary collection of the arts of
Africa Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional
African art in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection, this
stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from
regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by
leading art historians and anthropologists attend closely to the
meanings and materials of the works themselves in addition to
fleshing out original contexts. These experts also underscore the
ways in which provenance and collection history are important to
understanding how we view such objects today. Celebrating the Art
Institute's collection of traditional African art as one of the
oldest and most diverse in the United States, this is a fresh and
engaging look at current research into the arts of Africa as well
as the potential of future scholarship.
Mali is currently the seventh largest country in Africa. It shares
borders with Mauritania and Senegal in the west, Algeria in the
north, Guinea and Ivory Coast in the south, and Burkina Faso and
Niger in the east. After decades of dictatorship, in 1992, a new
democratic constitution was adopted and today Mali is one of the
most politically and socially stable countries in Africa. While
Mali still has a long way to go with their economy they are
considered to be among the 10 poorest countries in the world they
continue to make progress and their increase in cereal and gold
production are steps in the right direction. The fourth edition of
the Historical Dictionary of Mali, through its chronology,
bibliography, introductory essay, and over 500 cross-referenced
dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and
institutions and significant political, economic, social, and
cultural aspects, provides an important reference on this African
country.
Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and
30s with their remarkable movies of far-away places, exotic
peoples, and the dramatic spectacle of African wildlife. Their own
lives were as exciting as the movies they made--sailing through the
South Sea Islands, dodging big game at African waterholes, flying
small planes over the veldt, taking millionaires on safari. Osa
Johnson's ghostwritten autobiography, I Married Adventure, became a
national bestseller. The 1939 film version was billed as "the story
of World Exploration's First Lady, whose indomitable daring would
be stayed by neither snarling lion nor crouching leopard, tropic
tempest nor savage tribesman " Heroes to millions, Osa and Martin
seemed to embody glamor, daring, and the all-American ideal of
self-reliance. Probing beneath the glamor of the Johnsons' public
image, Pascal and Eleanor Imperato explore the more human side of
the couple's lives--and ways the Johnsons shaped, for better and
for worse, America's vision of Africa. Drawing on many years of
research, access to a wealth of letters and archives, interviews
with many who worked closely with the Johnsons, and their own deep
knowledge of Africa, the authors present a fascinating and intimate
portrait of this intrepid couple.
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