mcgill queen's university press jun 2024 (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*Early Modern Naval Health Care in England \*follows the transformation of organized health care for Royal Navy seamen from 1650 to 1750. Matthew Neufeld finds that these changes relied on the relationship between naval officials and the ordinary people of coastal areas, especially the women who typically oversaw care spaces and engaged in care work.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Voting Online investigates the effects of cyber elections by looking at how adoption of online voting affects attitudes towards democracy, who uses and who benefits from the voting mode, the extent to which candidates support it, and what factors election administrators consider when deciding to adopt it. The authors provide important lessons for all interested in the health of democratic societies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail explores how sailors became nostalgic symbols of maritime prowess and heroic masculinity. The book argues that maritime writing preserved ideas of masculinity in an era when modernization was challenging assumptions about gender, class, and society.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pharmacopoeias - books describing approved standards and composition of drugs - have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of 'official' pharmacopoeias across the British Empire, from the local to national scale, and later to a single pharmacopoeia across imperial Britain.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the Global South make refugee policy, including a decade-long account of how two small states responded to the Syrian refugee crisis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the 2010s Canada was a world leader in creating interactive documentaries. By the 2020s many of these celebrated i-docs were rendered inaccessible by obsolete technology. This collection examines the short-lived past and the imagined future of the i-doc and emphasizes its impact on the contemporary film and media landscape in Canada and beyond.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of the international emergence and development of commercial tattooing.