Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lal -- Playgrounds and battlegrounds / Irene Ulman -- Returning to my mother's tongue / Zhengdao (Veronica) Ye -- East meets West, or does it really? / Jock Wong -- Growing up between two languages/two worlds / Andrea Witcomb -- Two languages, two cultures, one (?) …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Colonial Foundations of Global Health: Britain, Gold Coast, and Ghana, 1919-61 -- 2 Religion and Africanising Health: Ghana, 1957-68 -- 3 Reframing Postcolonial International Health: Ghana, the Netherlands, and West Germany, 1957-90 -- 4 International Health Campaigns and Christian Mission: Ghana, Europe, and North America, 1950-94 5 -- Primary Health Care, Global Health, and Medical Mission: Ghana, the WHO, and the World Council of Churches, 1960-2000 -- Conclusion: Religion, the Ghanaian State, and the Future of Global Health -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ John Borneman -- Problematic Reproductions : Children, Slavery and Not-Knowing in Colonial French West Africa / Roy Dilley -- Power and Ignorance in British India : The Native Fetish of the Crown / Leo Coleman -- Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other / Thomas G. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Pastoral -- Regions Apart -- Two Versions of Pastoral -- North, South, East, West -- Chapter 5. Amateur -- "The World's Most Fascinating Hobby": Robert Arneson -- Feminism and the Politics of Amateurism -- Abject Craft: Mike Kelley and Tracey Emin -- Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Republican society -- 10. The Jeffersonian west -- 11. Law and an independent judiciary -- 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Post-war submergence and reintegration into West German society, 1945-59 -- 8. Arrest and trial, February 1959-June 1962 -- 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…In the club -- Anarchy -- Disease and the man -- Upstate -- Southern pride -- Out of the west -- Collapse -- Security and securities -- The subpoena -- Art and taxes -- Court packing -- Switch in time -- Ambition -- The skeleton -- Original intent -- Anschluss -- The sheriff --The pledge -- Of gurus and vice presidents -- Destroyers and bases -- The sword -- And the war came -- The saboteurs -- Faith -- Internment -- A disaster -- Succession -- The death of fathers -- Justice at Nuremberg -- The final solution -- Things fall apart -- Originalism -- Crisis and rebirth -- The constitution abroad -- The Communist councilman -- The battle of Foley Square -- Clear and present danger -- Seizure -- The zone of twilight -- Segregation -- The Brown puzzle -- Deliberate speed -- The individualists -- Ex Machina -- Last act -- Hollow men -- Kaddish -- The pine box -- The wilderness : and a triumph…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : the western way of war / Genesis of the infantry 600-350 BC / From phalanx to legion 350-250 BC / Roman way of war 250 BC-AD 300 / On Roman ramparts 300-1300 / New weapons, new tactics 1300-1500 / Gunpowder revolution 1300-1500 / Ships of the line 1500-1650 / Conquest of the Americas 1500-1650 / Dynastic war 1494-1660 / States in conflict 1661-1763 / Nations in arms 1763-1815 / Industrialization of war 1815-1872 / Towards world war 1871-1914 / West at war 1914-1918 / World in conflict 1919-1941 / World at war 1941-1945 / Post-war world 1945-2004…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Spain and Islam: the myth of Al-Andalus ; Reconquest and crusade: a "Spanish ideology"? ; Spain and the west: identity, monarchy, empire ; Spain and Portugal ; Decline and recovery ; The problem of Spanish liberalism -- Dilemmas of contemporary history. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The contours of world development 2 -- The history of macro-measurement 5 -- The shape of things to come 6 -- Contours of world development, 1--2003AD -- 1the Roman Empire and its economy 11 -- Introduction 11 -- Key characteristics accounting for Roman success in empire building 13 -- Conquest of the Italian Peninsula, 396--191BC 17 -- The empire building process 18 -- The disintegration of the empire 30 -- Roman demography 32 -- Roman income 44 -- Endnotes 61 -- Bibliography 62 -- 2The resurrection of Western Europe and the transformation of the americas 69 -- Why and when did the west get rich? 69 -- The driving forces that explain the acceleration in western growth since 1820 73 -- Changes in the structure of demand and employment 74 -- The european transformation of the Americas, 1500--1820 88 -- Endnotes 105 -- References 108 -- 3The interaction between Asia and the West, 1500--2003 111 -- European--Asian interaction from 1500 to 1820 112 -- The impact of Asian trade on Europe, 1500--1820 115 -- The impact of Europe on Asia, 1500--1820 116 -- Endnotes 178 -- References 179 -- 4The impact of Islam and Europe on African development: 1--2003AD 183 -- Introduction 183 -- The European impact on North Africa before the seventh century 185 -- The Islamic conquest and its implications 188 -- Egypt as Islamic state 192 -- The Maghreb and the initiation of Trans-Saharan trade in gold and slaves 206 -- The changing character of Moroccan dynasties and their interaction with Europe and Black Africa 209 -- Black Africa and the impact of Islam 214 -- The European encounter with Africa 217 -- Africa from 1820 to 1960 227 -- Post-colonial Africa, 1960 onwards 231 -- Appendix 237 -- Endnotes 239 -- References 240 -- Advances in macro-measurement since 1665 -- 5political arithmeticians and historical demographers: the pioneers of macro-measurement 249 -- William Petty (1623--87) 250 -- John Graunt: the first demographer (1620--74) 256 -- Gregory King (1648--1712) and Charles Davenant (1656--1714) 258 -- Patrick Colquhoun (1745--1820) 282 -- French political arithmetic, 1695--1707 284 -- Macro-measurement in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century 287 -- Bibliography 288 -- 6Modern macro-measurement: how far have we come? …”
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