Category: History 1

By Marelize Gorgens-Albino, Nadeem Mohammad, David Blankhart, Oluwole, M.D. Odutolu

ISBN-10: 0821370529

ISBN-13: 9780821370520

ISBN-10: 0821370537

ISBN-13: 9780821370537

'The Africa Multi-Country AIDS application 2000–2006' exhibits that the investment made to be had during the international Bank's Multi-Country AIDS application (MAP) has dramatically elevated entry to HIV prevention, care, and remedy throughout Africa. The booklet makes use of wide info from nationwide surveys and HIV/AIDS courses that express how MAP investment has helped help youngsters and adults plagued by AIDS, avoided mother-to-child transmission, helped international locations construct potential for increased and more beneficial nationwide programs--including offering treatment--and been a catalyst for drastically elevated aid. released and unpublished information from 30 international locations are compiled to supply the fi rst precis photograph of the implications to which MAP help in Africa has contributed. One specified characteristic of the MAP has been its emphasis on channeling cash to groups, grassroots projects, civil-society companies, and NGOs. own tales from humans and teams in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Rwanda provide robust examples of ways those grass-roots efforts and sharing of data and stories between international locations have stronger overall healthiness and lives, diminished stigma, and given new wish to humans residing with and stricken by HIV around the continent. The booklet additionally introduces a brand new effects Scorecard and Framework to higher degree and record on result of Bank-fi nanced HIV/AIDS courses in Africa. the consequences defined during this e-book might be of significant curiosity to readers operating within the components of civil society engagement, public wellbeing and fitness, poverty relief, social improvement, and inhabitants and reproductive wellbeing and fitness, in addition to to somebody drawn to nationwide and worldwide responses to HIV in Africa.

By Rene Chartrand, Brian Delf

ISBN-10: 184603504X

ISBN-13: 9781846035043

"New France" consisted of the world colonized and governed by way of France in North the US from the sixteenth to the 18th centuries. This name, which follows on from citadel 27: French Fortresses in North the United States 1534-1763: Qu??bec, Montr??al, Louisbourg and New Orleans and fort seventy five: The Forts of latest France in Northeast the US 1600-1763, takes a glance on the forts guarding the frontier defenses of latest France from the nice Lakes, down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. one of the websites tested are forts Cr??vecoeur (Illinois), Biloxi (on the Mississippi), St Jean-Baptiste (Louisiana), Natchitoches (Louisiana), de Chartres (on the Mississippi), Cond?? (Alabama), and Toulouse (Alabama).

By Ang Cheng Guan

ISBN-10: 0203987330

ISBN-13: 9780203987339

ISBN-10: 0415326095

ISBN-13: 9780415326094

Latest reviews of the Vietnam conflict were written ordinarily from an American point of view, utilizing western assets, and viewing the clash via western eyes. This booklet, according to broad unique study, together with Vietnamese, chinese language and previous Soviet assets, tells the tale of the warfare from the Tet offensive in 1968 as much as the reunification of Vietnam in April 1975. total, it offers a massive corrective to the predominantly US-centric narratives of the conflict via putting the Vietnamese communists centre-stage within the tale. it's a sequel to the author's RoutledgeCurzon e-book The Vietnam conflict From the opposite aspect, which covers the interval 1962-68.

By Laurette Sejourne

ISBN-10: 3596600219

ISBN-13: 9783596600212

By Arnold Hauser

ISBN-10: 0203981243

ISBN-13: 9780203981245

ISBN-10: 0415199476

ISBN-13: 9780415199476

First released in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding paintings provides an account of the improvement and that means of paintings from its origins within the Stone Age via to the movie Age. Exploring the interplay among paintings and society, Hauser successfully info social and ancient events and sketches the frameworks during which visible artwork is produced. This re-creation presents a great advent to the paintings of Arnold Hauser. In his common advent to The Social heritage of paintings, Jonathan Harris asseses the significance of the paintings for modern artwork historical past and visible tradition. moreover, an creation to every quantity offers a synopsis of Hausers narrative and serves as a serious consultant to the textual content, selecting significant subject matters, developments and arguments.

By Penelope D. Johnson

ISBN-10: 0226401855

ISBN-13: 9780226401850

ISBN-10: 0226401863

ISBN-13: 9780226401867

ISBN-10: 0226401979

ISBN-13: 9780226401973

By Christoph Strobel

ISBN-10: 0313363137

ISBN-13: 9780313363139

Within the final a long time, progressively more immigrants from worldwide have arrived within the usa. way of life of the hot americans: Immigration for the reason that 1965 offers a thematic review in their daily lives and underscores the range and complexity of the newcomer event. equipped into six thematic chapters, the ebook examines how immigrants from Latin the United States, Asia, Africa, the center East, and Europe are altering the face of the yank state, and, while, are themselves being replaced by way of dwelling in the US. The tales instructed listed below are better by utilizing oral histories that deliver immigrant stories vividly to existence.

By Elizabeth Chambers Patterson (auth.)

ISBN-10: 9400968396

ISBN-13: 9789400968394

ISBN-10: 9400968418

ISBN-13: 9789400968417

Among the myriad of adjustments that came about in nice Britain within the first 1/2 the 19th century, lots of specific value to the historian of technology and to the social historian are discernible in that small section of British society drawn jointly through a shared curiosity in normal phenomena and with enough relaxation or chance to enquire and think about them. This staff, which by no means numbered greater than an insignificant handful compared to the complete inhabitants, might rightly be characterised as 'scientific'. They and their successors got here to occupy an more and more vital position within the highbrow, academic, and constructing financial lifetime of the country. good prior to the arriving of mid-century, usual philosophers and inventors have been normally hailed as a resource of nationwide satisfaction and of nationwide status. clinical society is a function of nineteenth-century British existence, the easiest being present in London, within the universities, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in a couple of scattered provincial centres.

By J. Gilberto Quezada

ISBN-10: 0890968659

ISBN-13: 9780890968659

ISBN-10: 1585449350

ISBN-13: 9781585449354

By Susan Muaddi Darraj

ISBN-10: 1604134933

ISBN-13: 9781604134933