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Between 1947 and 1954, the Mexican and US governments waged a
massive campaign against a devastating livestock plague, aftosa or
foot-and-mouth disease. Absorbing over half of US economic aid to
Latin America and involving thousands of veterinarians and ranchers
from both countries, battalions of Mexican troops, and scientists
from Europe and the Americas, the campaign against aftosa was
unprecedented in size. Despite daunting obstacles and entrenched
opposition, it successfully eradicated the virus in Mexico, and
reshaped policies, institutions, and knowledge around the world.
Using untapped sources from local, national, and international
archives, Thomas Rath provides a comprehensive history of this
campaign, the forces that shaped it - from presidents to peasants,
scientists to journalists, pistoleros to priests, mountains to
mules - and the complicated legacy it left. More broadly, it uses
the campaign to explore the formation of the Mexican state,
changing ideas of development and security, and the history of
human-animal relations.
As Haykon's refugees converge on Calandra, Zadok's army prepares
for their final assault while Jack and Ranse struggle to convince
the incompetent king that the annihilation of Calandra's people is
imminent. Thane, Dor, and Tam return to their homeland seeking a
talisman that might be their only hope in defeating the evil horde
that is bent on their destruction but old jealousies and hatred
could be the stumbling blocks that doom all good races to ultimate
extinction. Jne seeks to regain her honor knowing that very likely
it will end with her death. Time is running out for all as fate
races to meet them in this explosive conclusion of the Master of
the Tane series.
Walking in a Tjal-Dihn camp, Thane is unable to remember who he is
or where he has been. Desperate to feel connected and with nowhere
else to go, he asks to participate in the Tjal adoption ceremony
that, if successfully completed, will assure him an honorable place
in Tjal society. What he doesn't realize is that to fail is to
forfeit his life. Dor struggles to understand his growing feelings
for Tam as he helplessly watches her dranlok addiction consume her,
threatening to take her away as it drains her will to live. Jack
fights to convince the humans they are in danger of extinction but
is disregarded by an inept king's apathy toward his own people.
Meanwhile, Bedler's numbers continue to swell in anticipation of
the coming massacre that will surely catch the humans, and the rest
of the free races, in its wake of complete annihilation. With hope
swiftly fading, all life hangs on the ability of a handful of
soldiers to hold back the deadly tide while the sun quickly sets on
a doomed world as night calls the raven.
Es kommt nicht darauf an, die Zukunft vor herzusagen, sondem auf
sie vorbereitet zu sein. PERIKLES Es gibt keinen guten Wind fur
jene, die nicht wissen, wohin sie segeJn wollen. SENECA Wie weit
reichend die zu diskutierenden Fragen sind, war auch den
Herausgebem zu Beginn der Arbeiten nicht kIar. Erst die
Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Thema aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher
Professionen machte das AusmaB deutIich. Die Zusanunen stellung der
Beitriige war begleitet von einer Vielzahl von Erkenntnisprozessen
tiber die Komplexitiit der Fragestellungen. Wir danken den Autoren
fUr ihre unkonventionelle und aufschlussreiche Zusanunen arbeit.
Das Ergebnis sind interessante und zugleich nachdenklich stimmende
Meinun gen und Anregungen zu den derzeitigen organisatorischen
EntwickIungen in den Kran kenkassen. Mit allen Autoren gemeinsam
konnte das Ziel verwirkIicht werden, das organisatorische Geschehen
im Gesundheitswesen und in den Kassen mit Abstand und aus vielen
verschiedenen Blickrichtungen zu betrachten. Das alles ware nicht
moglich gewesen, wenn uns die Autoren nicht in unserer Meinung zur
Notwendigkeit dieses Buches untersttitzt und mit ihren Ideen neue
Facetten des Themas eroffnet hiitten. Das vorliegende Ergebnis ist
ein deutlicher Beweis fUr die Verbundenheit der Autoren mit dem
deutschen Gesundheitswesen und ihr tiberaus grolles Interesse
daran, dass dieses System auch in Zukunft solidarisch und sozial im
Interesse der Menschen funktionieren kann. Die Suche nach
wirtschaftlichen und zu gleich qualitiitsverbessemden Losungen
liegt allen am Herzen. Wir mochten an dieser Stelle auch unseren
Ehepartnem und Kindem danken, die uns tiber eine lange Zeit
untersttitzt haben, diese Buchidee neben unserem beruflichen Alltag
zu verwirkIichen."
At the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, Mexico's large,
rebellious army dominated national politics. By the 1940s, Mexico's
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was led by a civilian
president and claimed to have depoliticised the army and achieved
the bloodless pacification of the Mexican countryside through land
reform, schooling, and indigenismo. However, historian Thomas Rath
argues, Mexico's celebrated demilitarisation was more protracted,
conflict-ridden, and incomplete than most accounts assume. Civilian
governments deployed troops as a police force, often aimed at
political suppression, while officers meddled in provincial
politics, engaged in corruption, and crafted official history, all
against a backdrop of sustained popular protest and debate. Using
newly available materials from military, intelligence, and
diplomatic archives, Rath weaves together an analysis of national
and regional politics, military education, conscription, veteran
policy, and popular protest. In doing so, he challenges dominant
interpretations of successful, top-down demilitarisation and
questions the image of the post-1940 PRI regime as strong, stable,
and legitimate. Rath also shows how the army's suppression of
students and guerrillas in the 1960s and 1970s, and the more recent
militarisation of policing, have long roots in Mexican history.
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