Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

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Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped change the scientific framework and practices of doctors in Brazil.
Peard shows how the Tropicalistas adapted Western medicine and challenged the Brazilian medical status quo in order to find new answers to the old question of whether the diseases of warm climates were distinct from those of temperate Europe. They carried out innovative research on parasitology, herpetology, and tropical disorders, providing evidence that countered European assumptions about Brazilian racial and cultural inferiority. In the face of European fatalism about health care in the tropics, the Tropicalistas forged a distinctive medicine based on their beliefs that public health would improve only if large social issuesâsuch as slavery and abolitionâwere addressed and that the delivery of health care should encompass groups hitherto outside the doctors’ sphere, especially women. But the Tropicalistas’ agenda, which included biting social critiques and broad demands for the extension of health measures to all of Brazil’s people, was not sustained. Race, Place, and Medicine shows how imported models of tropical medicineâconstructed by colonial nations for their own needsâdownplayed the connection between socioeconomic factors and tropical disorders.
This study of a neglected episode in Latin American history will interest Brazilianists, as well as scholars of Latin American, medical, and scientific history.

Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: Essays in Performance and Analysis (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

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Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: Essays in Performance and Analysis (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
David Witten
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0815315023

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These stimulating essays clarify theoretical concepts, debunk longstanding myths, and illuminate 19th century piano repertoire. David Witten writes about the importance of analytical, structural thinking for performing musicians. Nicholas Marston presents his translation with commentary of Heinrich Schenker's previously unpublished essay about Beethoven's "Eroica" Variations, which includes suggestions for performers. Camilla Cai explores the element of texture in the piano works of Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel. Charles Burkhart explains "concluding expansions," a term he coined to describe Chopin's method of simultaneously tightening and expanding the endings of various works. Witten's essay about the Chopin Ballades identifies techniques that heighten harmonic tension as themes undergo a metamorphosis. Focusing on Schumann's last published piano cycle, John Daverio confronts the generations-old controversy of whether Schumann's last works reveal his genius or his impending madness. CristinaCapparelli Gerling writes about Liszt's masterful talent for transforming a Schubert song into a solo piano transcription; specifically, she examines Liszt's setting of six songs from Die Schsne Mÿllerin. Antony Hopkins provides an illuminating survey of the shorter piano works of Johannes Brahms. In the concluding essay, arguing with precision and logic, Joel Sheveloff restores Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition to its rightful status as one of the great masterpieces of the nineteenth century. Index. Illustrated.

The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

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The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Marsha Morton
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ASIN: 0815331568

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This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the nineteenth century, a critical period of gestation when instrumental music was identified as the paradigmatic expressive art and theoretically aligned with painting in the formulation ut pictura musica (as with music, so with painting). Under music's influence, painting approached the threshold of abstraction; concurrently many composers cultivated pictorial effects in their music. Individual essays address such themes as visualization in music, the literary vs. pictorial basis of the symphonic poem, musical pictorialism in painting and lithography, and the influence of Wagner on the visual arts. In these and other ways, both composers and painters actively participated in interarts discourses in seeking to redefine the very identity and aims of their art. Also includes 17 musical examples.

Race and Homicide in Nineteenth Century California (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities)

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Race and Homicide in Nineteenth Century California (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities)
Clare V., Jr. McKanna
Manufacturer: University of Nevada Press
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ASIN: 0874175151

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High murder rates have always been considered an indication of a society in turmoil, and nineteenth-century California was no exception. There, a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of diverse ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward the law and personal honor created a situation where violence was common and legal responses varied broadly. Clare V. McKanna Jr. has published widely on the history of criminal justice in the West. For Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California, he studied coroners' inquest reports, court case files, prison registers, and other primary sources, as well as numerous printed sources, to analyze patterns of homicide and the vagaries of the state's embryonic justice system. The nature of crimes, he discovered, varied with the ethnicity of perpetrators and victims, as did trials and sentencing patterns. Marginalized individuals, like the state's diminishing Indians, fared worst, and Hispanics, whose traditional legal system differed in important ways from the imported practices of the new white majority, did little better. Homicide in the Chinese community was largely confined to fellow Chinese and was often prompted by rivalries among various secret societies. Whites, coming from a number of backgrounds, carried their own conceptions of honor and their own predilections toward violence.

McKanna presents here a vivid, carefully detailed portrait of a society in flux, where ancient Spanish and Chinese legal practices collided with English common law and the "Code of the West," where greed, poverty, and down-right meanness created tensions that frequently led to bloodshed. The text, enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with numerous period photographs, is an engaging and richly intelligent study of a frontier society where the law was neither omnipresent nor, frequently, impartial. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the West and of the evolution of American law.

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The 1890's: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (Cresset Library)
Holbrook Jackson
Manufacturer: David & Charles
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London in the 1890s: A Cultural History

ASIN: 0091731593

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The classic commentary on a decade remarkable for its creativity, style and flamboyance in a brand new edition.

With great insight, Holbrook Jackson brings alive and interprets the creative expressions of this vibrant decade. Each chapter deals with a leading figure, style or trend, capturing with succinct and fluent prose the diverse personalities who held the stage. Jackson shows how it was a period of renaissance as much as of decadence - and as such became the threshold to the modern era.

With 24 illustrations on separate coated stock, and index.

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While other resources focus on different aspects of this century, such as the Civil War or immigration, this is the first truly comprehensive treatment to cover all aspects of 19th century history: population, politics and government, economy and work, society and culture, religion, social problems and reform, everyday life, and foreign policy are explored in more than 600 A-to-Z articles. Complete with more than 400 illustrations and maps, this set includes an exhaustive year-by-year chronology, original documents, tables and a complete index.

Enemies of Humanity: The Nineteenth-Century War on Terrorism

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Enemies of Humanity: The Nineteenth-Century War on Terrorism

Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 0230604595
Release Date: 2008-05-27

French Literature, Thought and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Warwick Studies in the European Humanities)

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French Literature, Thought and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Warwick Studies in the European Humanities)

Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 033353266X

German Essays on Science in the Nineteenth Century: : Paul Ehrlich, Alexander Von Humboldt, Werner Von Siemens and Others (German Library)

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German Essays on Science in the Nineteenth Century: : Paul Ehrlich, Alexander Von Humboldt, Werner Von Siemens and Others (German Library)
Paul R. Ehrlich
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
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German Essays on Science in the 20th Century (German Library)

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Headlines in History - The 1800s (hardcover edition) (Headlines in History)

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Headlines in History - The 1800s (hardcover edition) (Headlines in History)

Manufacturer: Greenhaven Press
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ASIN: 0737705442

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The nineteenth century was a complex era where Europe and the United States confronted the abrupt changes of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of new political and social theories. The authors describe these transitions in chapters examining Europe's economic domination of the globe through exploration and colonialism, the Civil War, and the emergence of an industrial working class.

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Too Bad It Had to End!.......2006-03-01

This is the last volume in the Ignatius Chesterton Collected Works series. The material here differs a bit from earlier volumes of his ILN essays, in that he jests a bit less often, and more noticeably, he hammers and hammers on one theme: the sloppy, superficial, lazy and irrational thinking that he sees underlying every popular trend in Western culture. Regardless of his subject--feminism, American culture (too materialistic, but as truly a democratic nation as ever there was), education, communism--Chesterton is relentless in pointing out the absurd arguments and conclusions of his opponents. I thought the two most striking trends he observes throughout these years were--

1. A world that is devolving from Puritanism to paganism, and seeing a resurgence in religion at the same time. This is interesting because the cultural clash between secular and religious elements in the West today developed out of this period.

2. An American culture that is overwhelming European culture because of its size, energy, and commercial success. GKC is concerned that America's "commercial optimism" will devalue more important aspects of Western thinking and values.

But GKC has so much to say about everything, it's hard to summarize his observations. On September 27, 1930, he reflected on his 25th anniversary with the ILN. He concludes that essay with a great expression of his most fundamental beliefs--

"For I have always believed, in a sense not understood by either Puritan or Pagan, in the Simple Life. Only it is a simplicity of the heart and not of the dress or diet, and the essence of it is thanks. The new Puritan will not give thanks for wine or drink it, and the new Pagan will drink it without giving thanks..."

Classic Chesterton.......2000-04-21

In my opinion, the essay is the literary form where Chesterton's brilliance shines the brightest, and so these Illustrated News collections make for great reading. This volume, containing the columns from 1929-1931, is one of my favorites because he deals with a greater diversity of topics than, say, during the WWI years.

Chesterton was never afraid to poke fun at his own self or reputation, and in one of the first and funniest essays in the collection, titled " If I Was a Preacher," he remarks that a Utopia would be a place where he would be gagged and rendered speechless. He moves on in subsequent columns to confront the ideas of the era: the rise of Darwinism and scientism, the emergence of psychology and sociology as serious science, gender politics, prohibition, etc. Among the personalities he remarks on are H.L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, Abraham Lincoln, T.S. Eliot, and Albert Einstein. Chesterton is especially entertaining when writing about modernism, and the myopia of a society which considered itself superior just because it was modern. There are a dozen or so essays on that alone. They make interesting reading because they are so applicable to the 21st century world, too.

For example: in a column here from August 1931, GKC satirizes the "modern" logic that says that marriage vows went out with Victorian dresses; he reasons that Socratic ideals must have gone out with long tunics, or that Spinoza's mathematics no longer made sense when he took off his shirt. Even those long familiar with Chesterton will find provocative and surprising reading here.

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Fascinating Historical Document

The Illustrated London News, 1917-1919 (Collected Works of Gk Chesterton)
G. K. Chesterton , Lawrence J. Clipper , and George J. Marlin
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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ASIN: 0898702380

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Fascinating Historical Document.......2004-06-18

This volume of "The Collected Works" contains GK's weekly essays for "The Illustrated London News" from 1917 through 1919. He writes mainly about the Great War, Germany, the problems of the peace, various forms of socialism, and Bolshevism. For GK, the Great War was nothing less than a battle between Christendom and barbarianism. He pounds Prussia and Prussianism into the ground with relentlessly logical arguments, and a recounting of facts so obvious and fundamental that they seem to have been overlooked by the pacifists, socialists and other war critics of the time. His perspective on American culture, Wilson, The League of Nations, the Russian Revolution, Poland, France, capitalism, on and on, are truly fascinating and blend together to provide an incredibly vivid picture of the political and social forces at work in Europe in this enormously complicated and tumultuous period. This book should be required reading for any college course on World War I.

Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1923-1925, Vol 33 (Collected Works of Gk Chesterton)

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A Real Treat for Chesterton Fans!

Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1923-1925, Vol 33 (Collected Works of Gk Chesterton)
G. K. Chesterton
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Illustrated London News, 1929-1931 (Collected Works of Gk Chesterton)

ASIN: 0898702747

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A Real Treat for Chesterton Fans!.......2003-12-30

Volumes 27-37 of the Ignatius Press Collected Works series cover weekly essays Chesterton wrote for "The Illustrated London News". Here in Vol. XXXIII, GK's writing is as humorous and perceptive as ever, as he tackles all sorts of topics, including evolution, Prohibition, current affairs in Europe, Capitalism, Socialism, English literature, Leopold and Loeb...His opinions are almost always relentlessly logical, devastatingly trenchant, and yet well-mannered and good-natured. Every word is to be savored. Although some of the issues GK takes on are forgotten, the insights he draws from them live on!

Collected Works of G.K.Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907, Vol. 27 (Collected Works of Gk Chesterton)

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Dickens's finest interpreter until after World War II
You can never go wrong with Chesterton
A delightful collection... (Vol. X of the series)

Collected Works of G.K.Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907, Vol. 27 (Collected Works of Gk Chesterton)
G. K. Chesterton
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ASIN: 089870118X

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Dickens's finest interpreter until after World War II.......2007-07-16

Written in 1906 and 1911 and bound as this affordable paperback, Chesterton's two volumes of Dickens criticism remain superb, and have seldom been bettered by the academic industry's vast output. Although Chesterton's addiction to paradox can challenge or annoy readers unfamiliar with his style, a brief immersion dispels the difficulty, and further reading yields a mine of insights into Dickens as man and writer unsurpassed even by the publication of J. Hillis Miller's pathbreaking book of 1958. And: whereas Miller enjoyed not only the advantages of time and distance but also his rigorous training in academic criticism and scholarship, Chesterton wrote "simply" as one of those invaluable late Victorian and Edwardian "men of letters." In addition, he took on Dickens during the first fifty years after his death in 1870, when criticizing "The Inimitable" meant jousting with a National Institution. Writing as what we would call an "amateur," Chesterton perceptively celebrates Dickens's virtues with a love unblinded by a shrewd awareness of Dickens's faults. Some readers may find Chesterton's orthodox Catholic world view annoying, particularly when it obtrudes itself occasionally into his prose. But as a "simple," lifelong "Bible" Christian, Dickens would almost certainly have considered a relgious point of departure a matter of course -- although he would also almost certainly have deplored Chesterton's occasional narrowness. Those who bear with him for a single chapter will almost certainly be seduced by his penetrating and thought-provoking analyses; amateur and professional Dickensians alike should find this volume a perfect introduction to a deeper understanding of the novels and the man.

You can never go wrong with Chesterton.......2007-07-04

You can never go wrong with Chesterton. Chesterton can help you think, even if you're not good at it.

A delightful collection... (Vol. X of the series).......2001-06-13

Chesterton lovers and lovers of poetry in the classical English forms will enjoy this collection of poems by one of the 20th century's greatest stylists, G.K. Chesterton.

After a section of juvenalia, the poems are arranged by broad subject. My only complaint with the volume is that it is not complete, and that Ignatius Press has not yet released Part 2 of the Collected Poetry.

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One of the Best, Maybe the Best ILN Collections.......2006-11-16

Chesterton's "ILN" essays consume 11 volumes of the "Collected Works". This volume contains an enormous amount of humor and memorable passages on topics as relevant today as they were in 1908-1910. As usual, Chesterton covers a wide range of topics--European culture, the press, the arts, morals, capitalism, socialism, futurism, evolution, women's sufferage, the temperance movement, Christianity, and European history to name some. A few quotations may give you a sense of his remarkable style.

"A man can smile when he is dead. Composure, resignation, and the most exquisite good manners are, so to speak, the strong points of corpses."

"It seems to me that the mass of men do agree on the mass of morality, but differ disasterously about the proportions of it. In other words, all men admit the Ten Commandments, but they differ horribly about which is the first Commandment and which is the tenth."

"We must first of all establish the principle that we do not want a newspaper to give us a vision of the world made perfect; we want a church for that. We do not want a newspaper to give us good news; we want a gospel for that. We want a newspaper to give us true news, not elevating news or improving news."

Chesterton shifts from the sublime to the ridiculous with the unbridled glee of a child. But always there is a deep sense of truth in what he says. An absolute joy to read!

request information.......1999-02-13

We have an original copy of THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEW, SILVER JUBILEE RECORD NUMBER 1910-1935, we were wandering if it had any value or not. Please let me know , if you have any idea.

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Good Stuff.......2006-03-10

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Mostly covers World War I.......2004-04-05

This is Volume 30 of the "Collected Works". Chesterton's editorials mainly cover political, social, historical, cultural and philosophical topics relating to World War I. As always, GK's insights are fascinating. Avowedly anti-Prussian, he lambastes the Germans at every turn. The more Chesterton writes about Germany, the easier it is to understand how Nazism and its horrors came about. Besides Germany, GK also deals extensively with happening in England, France, and the United States. All in all, a very relevant volume in this superb series!

Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News 1914-1916, Volume 30

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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News 1914-1916, Volume 30
G. K. Chesterton
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913 (Collected Works of Gk Chesterton)

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Good, but not his best

The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913 (Collected Works of Gk Chesterton)
G. K. Chesterton
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Good, but not his best.......2006-04-04

Having just read GKC's essays from 1929-1931, I noticed quite a difference in these earlier works. Here, his insights are not quite as penetrating, his humor not quite as sharp. Still, Chesterton on a bad day is better than most social/political/spiritual commentators on a good day.

Recurrent themes/subjects in this volume include:
1. The anti-democratic tendencies of England which arise in part from an immoral concentration of wealth among the ruling class.
2. England's immoral and irrational laws against the poor, and England's treatment of the poor in general.
3. Feminism and the Suffrage movement.

Also of interest are a couple essays reflecting on the disaster of the Titanic.

All in all, worth reading, but I found the volumes covering the years just before and during WWI far more interesting.

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