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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Migration and the City -- 2. Professionalization in the City -- 3. Work in the City -- 4. Culture in the City -- 5. Birthing in the City: Columbus Hill -- 6. Health in Columbus Hill -- 7. Birthing in the City: The Mulberry District -- 8. Health in the Mulberry District -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

"Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest city in the American South in the colonial era. From 1700 to 1775 its growth rate was exceeded in the New World only by that of Philadelphia. The first comprehensive study of this crucial colonial center, Building Charleston charts the rise of one of early America's great cities, revealing its importance to the evolution of both South Carolina and the British Atlantic world during the eighteenth century. In many of the Southern colonies, plantation agriculture was the sole source of prosperity, shaping the destiny of nearly all inhabitants, both free and enslaved. The insistence of South Carolina's founders on the creation of towns, however, meant that this colony, unlike its counterparts, was also shaped by the imperatives of urban society. In this respect South Carolina followed developments in the rest of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, where towns were growing rapidly in size and influence. At the vanguard of change, burgeoning urban spaces across the British Atlantic ushered in industrial development, consumerism, social restructuring, and a new era in political life. Charleston proved no less an engine of change for the colonial lowcountry, promoting early industrialization and forging an ambitious middle class, a consumer society, and a vigorous political scene. Bringing these previously neglected aspects of early South Carolinian society to our attention, Emma Hart challenges the popular image of the prerevolutionary South as a society completely shaped by staple agriculture. Moreover, Building Charleston places the colonial American town, for the first time, at the very heart of a transatlantic process of urban development"--

Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphillis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis for Italian Americans, and so on. It was a challenging and ambitious program, dangerous for the providers, and troublingly reductive for the patients. Nevertheless, poor and working-class African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women all received some of the nation's best health care during this period. Health in the City challenges traditional ideas of early twentieth-century urban black health care by showing a program that was simultaneously racialized and cutting-edge. It reveals that even the most well-meaning public health programs may inadvertently reinforce perceptions of inferiority that they were created to fix

""At the turn of the twentieth century, black and white women migrated to New York City, a new place and environment swirling with ideas and practices of race, racism, germ theory and sanitation. Health in the City tells us the very human story of how pioneering, yet racialized health care thinking and services complicated the meaning of these women's motherhood as well as their own health and welfare. Hart's discovery and analysis of previously untapped archival records, offers an important narrative and reveals a remarkable mastery of historical methods that are a model of interdisciplinary.

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design. This is not urban design in the sense of the practice of design; rather it is a theory of the form of the town at all scales - why towns and cities happen to be structured the way they are as a result of the social, political, legal and (especially) economic forces that create them. The shape of the city at every scale, from the internal configuration of dwellings all the way up to the superstructure of the whole.

Der US-amerikanische Psychologe und Theologe und seine Tochter als Koautorin machen deutlich, wie stark Computer, Internet und Handy in unser Leben eingreifen und wie die Digitaltechnik insbesondere die Eltern-Kind-Beziehung vollkommen neu formt. Sie betonen, dass sie nicht technikfeindlich eingestellt sind, geben aber doch vor allem Ratschläge, mit denen die "digitale Invasion" für Eltern und Kinder besser in den Griff zu bekommen sein soll; in einem "Digitaltechnik-Schutzplan" bündeln sie ihre praktischen Hinweise dann nochmals. Als gläubige Christen ist es ihnen wichtig, immer wieder auch darauf hinzuweisen, welche Auswirkungen das digitale Zeitalter auf das geistliche Leben hat und wie eine "ethische Nutzung" digitaler Medien aussehen kann. Ein durchaus praxisnaher und hilfreicher Ratgeber, mit dem sich bewusst christlich orientierte Eltern gut ansprechen lassen

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Presence -- 1. The Beautiful -- 2. Sensing -- 3. Focusing -- 4. Witnessing -- 5. Opening -- Part II: Heart -- 6. The Good -- 7. Compassion -- 8. Empathizing -- 9. Feeling -- 10. Connecting -- Part III: Wisdom -- 11. The True -- 12. Possibility -- 13. Guidance -- 14. Clarifying -- 15. Discerning -- Part IV: Creation -- 16. Voice -- 17. Will And Willingness -- 18. Originality -- 19. Imagining -- 20. Calling -- Last Words -- Acknowledgments -- About Tobin Hart, PhD -- Index: Quizzes And Practices -- Notes -- Copyright.

Twenty-first century British kids are more comfortable with ethnic diversity than ever before. The 'mixed race' population is rising exponentially. In school playgrounds across Britain, kids are inventing a version of colour-blind, multi-ethnic interaction that should teach the adult world a thing or two - not least about the amazing, superdiverse generation that is to come.And yet, for over a decade, playgrounds and classrooms have endured unprecedented interference in the form of offici

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States. In 2009, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) granted FDA, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), authority to regulate tobacco products, including marketing and distribution to youth. The act established CTP, which implements the act by educating the public on the dangers of tobacco use; developing the science needed for tobacco regulation; and developing and enforcing regulations on the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of tobacco

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 The Fork in the Road -- Part One: Setting the Stage -- 2 Policy Origins -- 3 No Anchor, No Rudder, No Compass: The US Setting -- 4 Preparing the Way -- 5 Reaching a Decision -- 6 Forging Ahead -- 7 Getting Ready -- Part Two: Negotiating an Agreement -- 8 The Summer of Innocence -- 9 The Fall of Impatience -- 10 The Winter of Discontent -- 11 Spring Again: Moving Rocks -- 12 The Summer of Despair -- 13 Impasse in September -- Part Three: The Real Thing -- 14 What Had Gone Wrong? -- 15 A Near Run Thing -- 16 The Lawyers Take Over -- 17 Conclusions: A Good Agreement -- Notes -- Chronology of the Canada-US Free-Trade Negotiations -- Glossary of Trade and Related Terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- About the Authors.

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "wageless life," proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to increasingly common police brutality. Rethinking the South African Crisis revisits long-standing debates to shed new light on the transition from apartheid. Drawing on nearly twenty years of ethnographic research, Hart argues that local government has become the key site of contradictions. Local practices, conflicts, and struggles in the arenas of everyday life feed into and are shaped by simultaneous processes of de-nationalization and re-nationalization. Together they are key to understanding the erosion of African National Congress hegemony and the proliferation of populist politics. This book provides an innovative analysis of the ongoing, unstable, and unresolved crisis in South Africa today. It also suggests how Antonio Gramsci's concept of passive revolution, adapted and translated for present circumstances with the help of philosopher and liberation activist Frantz Fanon, can do useful analytical and political work in South Africa and beyond.

National Review has been the leading conservative national magazine since it was founded in 1955, and in that capacity it has played a decisive role in shaping the conservative movement in the United States. In The Making of the American Conservative Mind, Jeffrey Hart provides an authoritative and high-spirited history of how the magazine has come to define and defend conservatism for the past fifty years. He also gives a firsthand account of the thought and sometimes colorful personalities-including James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall, Russell Kirk, Frank Meyer, William Rusher, Priscilla Buckley, Gerhart Niemeyer, and, of course, the magazine's founder, William F. Buckley Jr.-who contributed to National Review's life and wide influence. As Hart sees it, National Review has regularly veered toward ideology, but it has also regularly corrected its course toward, in Buckley's phrase, a "politics of reality." Its catholicity and originality-attributable to Buckley's magnanimity and sense of showmanship-has made the magazine the most interesting of its kind in the nation, concludes Hart. His highly readable and occasionally contrarian history, the first history of National Review yet published, marks another milestone in our understanding of how the conservatism now so influential in American political life draws from, and in some ways repudiates, the intellectual project that National Review helped launch a half century ago