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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782730603321

Autore

Nightingale Florence <1820-1910.>

Titolo

Florence Nightingale on social change in India [[electronic resource] /] / Gérard Vallée, editor ; Lynn McDonald, general editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-50152-6

9786612501524

1-55458-111-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (975 p.)

Collana

The collected works of Florence Nightingale ; ; v. 10

Classificazione

44.63

Altri autori (Persone)

McDonaldLynn <1940->

ValléeGérard <1933->

Disciplina

306.0954

306.095409034

954.03

Soggetti

Public health - India - History - 19th century

Social change - India - History - 19th century

India Politics and government 1857-1919

India Social conditions 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 925-930) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life; Introduction to Volume 10; Key to Editing; Implementing Sanitary Reform; Village and Town Sanitation; Land Tenure and Rent Reform; Reform in Credit, Co-operatives, Education and Agriculture; The Condition of Women in India; Social and Political Evolution; Nightingale's Last Work on India and a Retrospective; Appendix A: Biographical Sketches; Appendix B: British Officials in Nightingale's Time; Appendix C: Spelling of Indian Place Names; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Social Change in India shows the shift of focus that occurred during Florence Nightingale's more than forty years of work on public health in India. While the focus in the preceding volume, Health in India, was top-down reform, notably in the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, this book documents concrete proposals for



self-government, especially at the municipal level, and the encouragement of leading Indian nationals themselves. Famine and related epidemics continue to be issues, demonstrating the need for public works like irrigation and for great