Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Durham Liber Vitae and Its Context
The several thousand names recorded here cast light on how the church in Northumbria interacted with contemporary lay and ecclesiastical society over six hundred years.
Monasteries and Society in Medieval Britain
Sixteen contributions from the 1994 Harlaxton Symposium which investigate the deeply entrenched and mutually beneficial relationship between monasticism and society that lasted for 1000 years. The wide-ranging papers consider, amongst other subjects, the role of minsters and monasteries in Anglo-Saxon England and Pictish Scotland, the influence of sculpture, art and manuscripts on the secular church, the relationship between Peterorough and its abbey between 1200 and the 1530s, almonry schools, Chaucer's nuns, the monks of Ely at Cambridge University and English and Welsh monastic bishops. Includes a tribute to Daniel Williams. Contributors: Sarah Foot, David Rollason, Isabel Henderson, David Postles, Nigel Morgan, D F Mackreth, Jack Higham, Roger Bowers, Lynda Dennison, Nicholas Rogers, Lynda Rollason, Marsha L Dutton, John Greatrex, Janet Burton, Barrie Dobson and Pamela Tudor-Craig.
Separate Beds
Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada's system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the "Indian Hospitals" were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients. Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the "Indian Hospitals," the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations. A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, Separate Beds reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada's First Nations that should never be forgotten.
A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.
Lobsticks and Stone Cairns
Lobsticks and stone cairns are landmarks that mark paths and commemorate events. The one hundred biographies in this book also offer themselves as paths to be taken. Centuries of human endeavour, hardship, folly, and suffering are collapsed into stories through which we can discover what the Arctic is and has been. Profiled in this book are "human landmarks" dating from as far back as the sixteenth century to those still active in the North today. Included are stories of adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, culture heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. The biographies are of Inuit, European, American, Indian, and Canadian men and women. What appears here is the essence of each person, rendered by an expert and put in a new context, bringing the history and geography of the North to life.
