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UNINA9910460808203321 |
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Johnson Jennifer <1981-> |
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The battle for Algeria : sovereignty, health care, and humanitarianism / / Jennifer Johnson |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016 |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights |
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Decolonization - Algeria |
Humanitarianism - Political aspects - Algeria |
Medical care - Algeria - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
Algeria Politics and government 1830-1962 |
Algeria History Revolution, 1954-1962 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Note on Sources, Names, and Spellings -- Introduction -- 1. The Long Road to War -- 2. Medical Pacification and the Sections Administratives Spécialisées -- 3. "See Our Arms, See Our Physicians": The Algerian Health- Services Division -- 4. Internationalizing Humanitarianism: The Algerian Red Crescent -- 5. The International Committee of the Red Cross in Algeria -- 6. Global Diplomacy and the Fight for Self-Determination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who-France or the National Liberation Front (FLN)-would exercise sovereignty of Algeria. The fight between the two sides was not simply a military affair; it also involved diverse and competing claims about who was positioned to better care for the Algerian people's health and welfare. Johnson focuses on French and Algerian efforts to engage one another off the physical battlefield and highlights the social dimensions of the FLN's winning strategy, |
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which targeted the local and international arenas. Relying on Algerian sources, which make clear the centrality of health and humanitarianism to the nationalists' war effort, Johnson shows how the FLN leadership constructed national health care institutions that provided critical care for the population and functioned as a protostate. Moreover, Johnson demonstrates how the FLN's representatives used postwar rhetoric about rights and national self-determination to legitimize their claims, which led to international recognition of Algerian sovereignty. By examining the local context of the war as well as its international dimensions, Johnson deprovincializes North Africa and proposes a new way to analyze how newly independent countries and nationalist movements engage with the international order. The Algerian case exposed the hypocrisy of selectively applying universal discourse and provided a blueprint for claim-making that nonstate actors and anticolonial leaders throughout the Third World emulated. Consequently, The Battle for Algeria explains the FLN's broad appeal and offers new directions for studying nationalism, decolonization, human rights, public health movements, and concepts of sovereignty. |
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UNINA9910777798803321 |
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Nadis Fred <1957-> |
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Wonder shows [[electronic resource] ] : performing science, magic, and religion in America / / Fred Nadis |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2005 |
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1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages) |
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Science news - United States - History - 19th century |
Science news - United States - History - 20th century |
Magic shows - United States - History - 19th century |
Magic shows - United States - History - 20th century |
Revivals - United States - History - 19th century |
Revivals - United States - History - 20th century |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I: Electric Wonders -- Part II: Mystic Vaudeville -- Part III: Millennial Wonders -- Bibliographical Essay -- Notes -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Imagine a stage full of black cats emitting electrical sparks, a man catching bullets with his teeth, or an evangelist jumping on a transformer to shoot bolts of lightning through his fingertips. These and other wild schemes were part of the repertoire of showmen who traveled from city to city, making presentations that blended science with myth and magic. In Wonder Shows, Fred Nadis offers a colorful history of these traveling magicians, inventors, popular science lecturers, and other presenters of “miracle science” who revealed science and technology to the public in awe-inspiring fashion. The book provides an innovative synthesis of the history of performance with a wider study of culture, science, and religion from the antebellum period to the present. It features a lively cast of characters, including electrical “wizards” Nikola Tesla and Thomas Alva Edison, vaudeville performers such as Harry Houdini, mind readers, UFO cultists, and practitioners of New Age science. All of these performers developed strategies for invoking cultural authority to back their visions of science and progress. The pseudo-science in their wonder shows helped promote a romantic worldview that called into question the absolute authority of scientific materialism while reaffirming the importance of human spirituality. Nadis argues that the sensation that these entertainers provided became an antidote to the alienation and dehumanization that accompanied the rise of modern America. Although most recent defenders of science are prone to reject wonder, considering it an ally of ignorance and superstition, Wonder Shows demonstrates that the public’s passion for magic and meaning is still very much alive. Today, sales continue to be made and allegiances won based on illusions that products are unique, singular, and at best, miraculous. Nadis establishes that contemporary showmen, corporate publicists, advertisers, and popular science lecturers are not that unlike the magicians and mesmerists of years ago. |
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UNINA9910347860203321 |
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The Private library |
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[Pinner, Eng., etc.], : [Private Libraries Association] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Private libraries |
Bibliography |
Bibliographies as Topic |
Bibliothèques privées |
Bibliographie |
bibliographies |
Periodical |
rare books. |
periodicals. |
Periodicals. |
Wood engravings1977 |
Private press books (Printing) |
Périodiques. |
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