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Approaching Democracy

American Government in Times of Challenge

By: Larry Berman,Bruce Allen Murphy,Nadia E Brown,Sarah Allen Gershon

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Approaching Democracy

American Government in Times of Challenge

By: Larry Berman,Bruce Allen Murphy,Nadia E Brown,Sarah Allen Gershon

Democracy cannot be taken for granted, whether at home or internationally, and eternal vigilance (along with civic intelligence) is required to protect it. Approaching Democracy provides students with a framework to analyze the structure, process, and action of US government, institutions, and social movements. It also invites comparison with other countries. This globalizing perspective gives students an understanding of issues of governance and challenges to democracy here and elsewhere. At a moment of political hyper-partisanship, economic tensions, media misinformation, hyper-partisanship, and anxieties about the future of civil rights, this is the ideal time to introduce Approaching Democracy--a textbook based on Vaclav Havel’s powerful metaphor of democracy as an ideal and the American experiment as the closest approach to it--to a new generation of political science undergraduate students. NEW TO THE TENTH EDITION Updated to reflect the results of the 2022 midterm elections and explore the implications of Congressional redistricting, voting suppression, and voting rights legislation Covers the first two years of the Biden administration and provides a thorough retrospective on the Trump presidency—including updates on the January 6 Commission findings and the Justice department’s investigation into Trump’s alleged misappropriation of classified government documents Presents the developments on the Supreme Court including the appointment of its two newest justices and major recent decisions including controversial rulings on reproductive health, the separation of church and state, and the environment Explores the revival of NATO and other international alliances in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine New and updated material has also been provided regarding gun control, healthcare, labor rights, immigration, economic policy, COVID-19’s lingering impacts, and the ongoing struggle for social and racial justice in America

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Taylor & Francis

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1000856291

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The Genealogy and Biography of the Waldos of America from 1650 to 1883

By: Joseph Davis Hall,Loren Pinckney Waldo,Charles Edward Waldo,Sarah Goss Waters

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The Genealogy and Biography of the Waldos of America from 1650 to 1883

By: Joseph Davis Hall,Loren Pinckney Waldo,Charles Edward Waldo,Sarah Goss Waters

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385349311

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Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

By: Sarah C Alexander

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Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

By: Sarah C Alexander

The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or ‘imponderable’.

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Routledge

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1317316819

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Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen; in Two Volumes, Volume II

Volume 2 - in large print

By: Sarah Tytler

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Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen; in Two Volumes, Volume II

Volume 2 - in large print

By: Sarah Tytler

Reproduction of the original.

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3368362186

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The Italian Boy

A Tale of Murder and Body-snatching in 1830s London

By: Sarah Wise

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The Italian Boy

A Tale of Murder and Body-snatching in 1830s London

By: Sarah Wise

A thrilling history of England's great metropolis at a point of great change, told through the story of a young vagrant murdered by "resurrection men" Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was one of thousands of orphans on the streets of London, moving among the livestock, hawkers, and con men, begging for pennies. When his body was sold to a London medical college, the suppliers were arrested for murder. Their high-profile trial would unveil London's furtive trade in human corpses carried out by body-snatchers--or "resurrection men"--who killed to satisfy the first rule of the cadaver market: the fresher the body, the higher the price. Historian Sarah Wise reconstructs not only the boy's murder but the chaos and squalor of London that swallowed the fourteen-year-old vagrant long before his corpse appeared on the slab. In 1831, the city's poor were desperate and the wealthy were petrified, the population swelling so fast that old class borders could not possibly hold. All the while, early humanitarians were pushing legislation to protect the disenfranchised, the courts were establishing norms of punishment and execution, and doctors were pioneering the science of human anatomy. Vivid and intricate, The Italian Boy restores to history the lives of the very poorest Londoners and offers an unparalleled account of the sights, sounds, and smells of a city at the brink of a major transformation.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466867809

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American Claimants

The Transatlantic Romance, c. 1820-1920

By: Sarah Meer

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American Claimants

The Transatlantic Romance, c. 1820-1920

By: Sarah Meer

This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.

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Oxford University Press

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0192540602

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9780192540607

Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

Bards and Britons

By: Sarah Prescott

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Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

Bards and Britons

By: Sarah Prescott

Examines Welsh writing in English in the context of critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the ‘invention’ of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This study investigates the ways in which Anglophone literature from and about Wales imagines the nation and its culture in a range of genres.

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University of Wales Press

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1786837234

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The History of Suffrage, 1760-1867 Vol 2

By: Anna Clark,Sarah Richardson

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The History of Suffrage, 1760-1867 Vol 2

By: Anna Clark,Sarah Richardson

This work brings together key texts drawn from the history of suffrage advocacy and agitation. The whole issue of voting rights and representation is shown to be anchored firmly in the wider political culture of Britain and Ireland as well as the Empire as a whole. Volume 2 covers texts from 1793 to 1817.

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Routledge

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1000420582

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Visualising Place, Memory and the Imagined

By: Sarah De Nardi

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Visualising Place, Memory and the Imagined

By: Sarah De Nardi

This book probes into how communities and social groups construct their understanding of the world through real and imagined experiences of place. The book seeks to connect the dots of the factual and the imaginary that form affective networks of identities, which help shape local memory and sense of self and community, as well as a sense of the past. It exploits the concept of make-believe spaces – in the environment, storytelling and mnemonic narratives – as a social framework that aligns and informs the everyday memory worlds of communities. Drawing upon fieldwork in cultural heritage, community archaeology, social history and conflict history and anthropology, this text offers a methodological framework within which social groups may position and enact the multiple senses of place and senses of the past inhabited and performed in different cultural contexts. This book serves to illustrate a useful visualisation methodology which can be used in participatory fieldwork and thus will be of interest to heritage specialists, ethnographers and cultural geographers and oral history practitioners who will particularly find the methodology cheap, easy to replicate and enjoyable for community-based projects.

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Routledge

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1351684280

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One-Armed Jack

Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper

By: Sarah Bax Horton

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One-Armed Jack

Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper

By: Sarah Bax Horton

Bringing a completely new analytical approach to the identity of the most notorious murderer in history, Sarah Bax Horton presents compelling evidence and names the real Jack the Ripper.

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Michael O'Mara Books

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1789295173

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The Pleasures of Memory

Learning to Read with Charles Dickens

By: Sarah Winter

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The Pleasures of Memory

Learning to Read with Charles Dickens

By: Sarah Winter

How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? “A fine contribution to the sociology of literature . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens’s serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as “English.” Sarah Winter shows how Dickens’s serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens’s serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience. Dickens’s celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth-century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into “mass” populations served by state school systems, Dickens’s beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823266184

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Nursing in General Practice

A foundation text

By: Sarah Luft,Milly Smith

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Nursing in General Practice

A foundation text

By: Sarah Luft,Milly Smith

This book will support the developments in general practice by introducing subjects that influence health care. Although the term practice nurse is used throughout the text, community health care nurse could equally apply as the editors recognize that much of the material covered is valuable to any nurse who works in the discipline of community health. Health itself is multifaceted and the contents of this book have been carefully chosen to serve as an introduction to areas of health care that are likely to be new to the majority of readers. The chapters therefore can be viewed as a comprehen sive text but each is sufficiently detailed to accommodate a specific framework for its subject area that should provide the basis for competent working knowledge. Hopefully readers will feel inspired to build on the work in these chapters and there is a wealth of specialized and detailed knowledge available in the colleges of higher education, nursing, medical and public libraries that provides material for further reading.

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Springer

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1489930892

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Communication and High-Speed Management

By: Donald P. Cushman,Sarah Sanderson King

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Communication and High-Speed Management

By: Donald P. Cushman,Sarah Sanderson King

High-speed management is used to competitive advantage by some of the most successful organizations in the world - General Electric; Toyota; ASEA, Brown, and Boveri; Motorola; Intel; and Matsushita. In these very successful companies fast cycle time or high-speed management translates into two important organizational capabilities. First, it creates a high level of performance that management can build into a firm's operating systems. More specifically, increases in effective communication are employed to eliminate bottlenecks, delays, and errors in production, cutting costs and improving quality. Second, high-speed management is an organizational strategy which continuously improves a firm's integration, coordination, and control systems. It transforms all of a firm's communication activities such as leadership, corporate climate, teamwork, worker and unit interfaces, process mapping, and outside linking processes into a more responsive customer adaptation system.

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SUNY Press

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0791425355

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9780791425350

The Queen

Volume II

By: Sarah Tytler

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The Queen

Volume II

By: Sarah Tytler

Reproduction of the original: The Queen by Sarah Tytler

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3732638774

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Religion and Place

Liverpool's historic places of worship

By: Sarah Brown,Peter de Figueiredo

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Religion and Place

Liverpool's historic places of worship

By: Sarah Brown,Peter de Figueiredo

From unpromising beginnings as a small fishing port with only one church, Liverpool grew to be a city of churches and chapels. By 1900 a Liverpool resident need walk no more than a couple of streets from home in order to go to church. While the Church of England built the most ambitious buildings on the most prominent sites, the Nonconformist denominations were all well represented by the end of the 18th century. It was also in 18th century that this Christian predominance diversified, as Jewish merchants and traders settled in the town in significant numbers, becoming rapidly anglicised and assimilated. In the 20th century some of the most exciting English churches of the period were built in Liverpool, reflecting the vitality of its School of Architecture, and some of Liverpool's 20th-century churches were among the first to be listed. However, the depopulation of the inner city, shrinking and aging congregations and the decline in clergy numbers have all taken their toll on Liverpool's aging places of worship. Many have been declared redundant, closed and even demolished. Those that remain face many challenges - crumbling fabric in need of expensive restoration, and fewer people to pay for it. With energy, imagination and the right kind of help, these obstacles can be overcome, and as Liverpool prepares to take on the role of European city of culture, its places of worship, celebrated in this profusely illustrated book, remain one of the most beautiful, exciting and diverse aspects of its historic environment.

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Historic England

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1848023162

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The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912

By: Sarah Roddy,Julie-Marie Strange,Bertrand Taithe

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The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912

By: Sarah Roddy,Julie-Marie Strange,Bertrand Taithe

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Manchester University. This book examines the business of charity - including fundraising, marketing, branding, financial accountability and the nexus of benevolence, politics and capitalism - in Britain from the development of the British Red Cross in 1870 to 1912. Whilst most studies focus on the distribution of charity, Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange and Bertrand Taithe look at the roots of the modern third sector, exploring how charities appropriated features more readily associated with commercial enterprises in order to compete and obtain money, manage and account for that money and monetize compassion. Drawing on a wide range of archival research from Charity Organization Societies, Wood Street Mission, Salvation Army, League of Help and Jewish Soup Kitchen, among many others, The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 sheds new light on the history of philanthropy in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

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1350058009

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The History of Suffrage, 1760-1867 Vol 6

By: Anna Clark,Sarah Richardson

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The History of Suffrage, 1760-1867 Vol 6

By: Anna Clark,Sarah Richardson

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1000419614

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A Georgian Heroine

The Intriguing Life of Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs

By: Joanne Major,Sarah Murden

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A Georgian Heroine

The Intriguing Life of Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs

By: Joanne Major,Sarah Murden

“A very fair and balanced portrait of one of the Regency era’s most remarkable—and most unknown—women” from the authors of A Right Royal Scandal (Jacqueline Reiter, author of Earl of Shadows). Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs lived an incredible life, one which proved that fact is often much stranger than fiction. As a young woman she endured a tortured existence at the hands of a male tormentor, but emerged from that to reinvent herself as a playwright and author; a political pamphleteer and a spy, working for the British Government; and later single-handedly organizing George III’s jubilee celebrations. Trapped in France during the revolutionary years of 1792–95, she published an anonymous account of her adventures. However, was everything as it seemed? The extraordinary Mrs. Biggs lived life upon her own terms in an age when it was a man’s world, using politicians as her mouthpiece in the Houses of Parliament and corresponding with the greatest men of the day. Throughout it all though, she held on to the ideal of her one youthful true love, a man who abandoned her to her fate and spent his entire adult life in India. In A Georgian Heroine, we delve into Mrs. Biggs’ life to reveal her accomplishments and lay bare her continued reinvention of herself. This is the bizarre but true story of an astounding woman persevering in a man’s world. “Reading the first few pages of this absorbing biography, it is hard to believe that the authors haven’t concocted a wild historical spoof, for this is truly an amazing story.” —Jane Austen’s Regency World

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Grub Street Publishers

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1473863481

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The Poetics of Conflict Experience

Materiality and Embodiment in Second World War Italy

By: Sarah De Nardi

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The Poetics of Conflict Experience

Materiality and Embodiment in Second World War Italy

By: Sarah De Nardi

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Taylor & Francis

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131530886X

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Something of Themselves

Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War

By: Sarah LeFanu

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Something of Themselves

Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War

By: Sarah LeFanu

A thoughtful biography tracing the paths of three literary greats through a turbulent period in Britain's imperial history.

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0197501443

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Life Of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen Vol.2

By: Sarah Tytler

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Life Of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen Vol.2

By: Sarah Tytler

Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen Vol-2 continues the powerful biography of Queen Victoria where Sarah goes deeper into the reign of Queen Victoria, exploring the challenges, triumphs, and personal experiences of one of the longest-serving monarchs in British history. Tytler's book dissects the political dynamics of Victoria's later reign and the impact she had on the Victorian era, as a constitutional monarch. With keen attention to detail and compelling narration, This story gives a vivid picture of the character complexities that Victoria possessed and the tumultuous period she lived in. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of the queen's accomplishments, the societal changes occurring during her reign, and the enduring legacy she left behind.

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9359393045

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9789359393049

Philanthropy and the Funding of the Church of England, 1856–1914

By: Sarah Flew

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Philanthropy and the Funding of the Church of England, 1856–1914

By: Sarah Flew

The changing relationship between the church and its supporters is key to understanding changing religious and social attitudes in Victorian Britain. Using the records of the Anglican Church’s home-missionary organizations, Flew charts the decline in Christian philanthropy and its connection to the growing secularization of society.

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1317317718

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The History of Suffrage, 1760-1867 Vol 1

By: Anna Clark,Sarah Richardson

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The History of Suffrage, 1760-1867 Vol 1

By: Anna Clark,Sarah Richardson

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1000420590

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Mobilizing Mercy

A History of the Canadian Red Cross

By: Sarah Glassford

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Mobilizing Mercy

A History of the Canadian Red Cross

By: Sarah Glassford

For more than a century the Canadian Red Cross Society has provided help and comfort to vulnerable people at home and abroad. In the first detailed national history of the organization, Sarah Glassford reveals how the European-born Red Cross movement came to Canada and took root, and why it flourished. From its origins in battlefield medicine to the creation of Canada’s first nationwide free blood transfusion service during the Cold War, Mobilizing Mercy charts crucial organizational changes, the influence of key leaders, and the impact of social, cultural, political, economic, and international trends over time. Glassford shows that the key to the Red Cross's longevity lies in its ability to reinvent itself by tapping into the concerns and ambitions of diverse groups including militia doctors, government officials, middle-class women, and schoolchildren. Through periods of war and peace, the Canadian Red Cross pioneered new services and filled gaps in government aid to become a ubiquitous agency on the wartime home front, a major domestic public health organization, and a respected provider of international humanitarian aid. Opening a window onto the shifting relationship between voluntary organizations and the state, Mobilizing Mercy is a compelling portrait of a major humanitarian organization, its people, and its ever-evolving place in Canadian society.

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0773548327

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