1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785578503321

Autore

Chan L

Titolo

China Engages Global Health Governance [[electronic resource] ] : Responsible Stakeholder or System-Transformer? / / by L. Chan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

1-282-99378-X

9786612993787

0-230-11624-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Series in Asian Governance

Disciplina

362.10951

Soggetti

Asia—Politics and government

Ethnology—Asia

Political sociology

Political science

Political planning

Social policy

Asian Politics

Asian Culture

Political Sociology

Political Science

Public Policy

Social Policy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

China meets global governance and global order : with or against the tide? -- China and global health regime : alienation or integrations? -- The HIV/AIDS governance in China : international-domestic nexus -- China's contribution to global health governance : China's role in Africa's AIDS crisis and WHO -- Theorizing and extrapolating China's increased participation in global health governance.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's



compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786657003321

Autore

Lindsay Ivan

Titolo

The history of loot and stolen art : from antiquity until the present day / / Ivan Lindsay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Unicorn Press Ltd, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-906509-57-3

1-906509-56-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (665 p.)

Disciplina

364.16287

Soggetti

Art thefts

Art thefts - History

Pillage - History

Art treasures in war - History

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Frontispiece; Publisher information; Acknowledgments; Principal players; Body matter; Preface; Introduction; 1 - Ancients, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Moors and Charlemagne; 2 - The Crusades and the sack of Constantinople; 3 - The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Renaissance and the dissolution of the monasteries; 4 - Spanish colonisation of the Americas, Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes; 5 - Sir Francis Drake; 6 - The emergence of Sweden; 7 - Cromwell's disposal of the collections of Charles I; 8 - Napoleon; 9 - Greece and Lord Elgin

10 - Egypt ; 11 - The British Museum and punitive expeditions against Ashanti and Benin; 12 - World War II, Hitler, Goering and the other Nazi leaders; 13 - 1945, the Soviets and Stalin; 14 - 1945, the US Army; 15 - 1945-2009; Conclusion; Back matter; Bibliography; Also available

Sommario/riassunto

The author of this enthralling book aims to present a well-illustrated



and documented alternative history of the Western World through graphic accounts of looting and art theft from the time of Sargon, ruler of Syria in 721 BC, to the present day. Almost all the principal players included appear on the stage of World history and many of them are known as conquerors, confiscators (the old-fashioned word for looters) and ruthless administrators of the regions they created as a result of their ...