1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787365303321

Autore

Fazan S. H. <1888-1979, >

Titolo

Colonial Kenya observed : British rule, Mau Mau and the wind of change / / S. H. Fazan; edited and with a foreword by John Lonsdale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7556-2415-7

0-85773-784-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

967.62/03

Soggetti

Biography: historical, political & military

Great Britain Colonies Africa Administration

Kenya History Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960

Kenya Politics and government To 1963

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Completed in 1969; not previously published.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-351) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Part 1. British East Africa. Historical background -- Early days of the Protectorate -- First impressions -- Races and migrations -- The First World War. -- ; Part 2. The Colony during the inter-war years. The coast -- Principal events and politics -- Changes. -- ; Part 3. Government in the African lands. The field administration -- African authorities. -- ; Part 4. Land. Agrarian problems of the African lands -- The white highlands. -- ; Part 5. The later colonial period. The Second World War -- Post-war settlement and Kikuyu politics -- The Mau Mau revolt -- Economic development. -- Part 6. Towards independence. The Lancaster House Conference and the end of the colony -- The wind of change. ; Appendix 1: Policy and theory -- ; Appendix 2: African laws and customs -- ; Appendix 3: An economic survey of the Kikuyu reserves.

Sommario/riassunto

"The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in the 18th century, control of the area was an aspiration for every colonial nation in Europe - but it



was not until 1895 that it was finally dominated by a sole power and proclaimed The Protectorate of British East Africa. In the early 20th century, the coast was brimming with vitality as immigrants, colonisers and missionaries from Arabia, India and Europe poured in to take advantage of growing commercial opportunities - including the prospect of enslaving millions of native Africans. The development of Kenya is an exceptional tale within the history of British rule - in perhaps no other colony did nationalistic feeling evolve in conditions of such extensive social and political change. In 1911, S.H. Fazan sailed to what later became the Republic of Kenya to work for the colonial government. Immersing himself in knowledge of traditional language and law, he recorded the vast changes to local culture that he encountered after decades of working with both the British administration and the Kenyan people. This work charts the sweeping tide of social change that occurred through his career with the clarity and insight that comes with a total intimacy of a country. His memoirs examine the fascinating complexity of interaction between the colonial and native courts, commercial land reform and the revolutionised dynamic of labour relations. By further unearthing the political tensions that climaxed with the Mau Mau Revolt of 1952-1960, this invaluable work on the European colonial period paints a comprehensive and revealing firsthand account for anyone with an interest in British and African history. Fazan's story provides a quite unparalleled view of colonial Africa and the conduct of Empire across half a century."--Bloomsbury publishing.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483671403321

Autore

Hong Sungbok

Titolo

Diffeomorphisms of elliptic 3-manifolds / / Sungbok Hong ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg, : Springer Verlag, 2012

ISBN

3-642-31564-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 155 p. 22 illus.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics ; ; 2055

Altri autori (Persone)

KalliongisJohn

McCulloughDarryl <1951->

RubinsteinJoachim Hyam

Disciplina

514.34

Soggetti

Diffeomorphisms

Three-manifolds (Topology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Elliptic 3-manifolds and the Smale Conjecture -- 2 Diffeomorphisms and Embeddings of Manifolds -- 3 The Method of Cerf and Palais -- 4 Elliptic 3-manifolds Containing One-sided Klein Bottles -- 5 Lens Spaces.

Sommario/riassunto

This work concerns the diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds, in particular of elliptic 3-manifolds. These are the closed 3-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric of constant positive curvature, now known to be exactly the closed 3-manifolds that have a finite fundamental group. The (Generalized) Smale Conjecture asserts that for any elliptic 3-manifold M, the inclusion from the isometry group of M to its diffeomorphism group is a homotopy equivalence. The original Smale Conjecture, for the 3-sphere, was proven by J. Cerf and A. Hatcher, and N. Ivanov proved the generalized conjecture for many of the elliptic 3-manifolds that contain a geometrically incompressible Klein bottle. The main results establish the Smale Conjecture for all elliptic 3-manifolds containing geometrically incompressible Klein bottles, and for all lens spaces L(m,q) with m at least 3. Additional results imply that for a Haken Seifert-fibered 3 manifold V, the space of Seifert fiberings has contractible components, and apart from a small list of known exceptions, is contractible. Considerable foundational and background material on diffeomorphism groups is included.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495891403321

Titolo

AIDS : the making of a chronic disease

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of California Press, 1992

ISBN

0-520-07569-2

Disciplina

614.5/993

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - History

Financial Support

Health Personnel

Homosexuality

Mass Media

Social Control, Formal

State Government

Substance-Related Disorders

Blood Donors

Confidentiality

Delivery of Health Care

Government

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Blood Transfusion

Education

History

Legislation

Local Government

Health Policy

Hemophilia A

Human Experimentation

Jurisprudence

Public Health

Minority Groups

Federal Government

Government Regulation

HIV Seropositivity

Public Policy

International Cooperation

Developing Countries



Chronic Disease

Women

Politics

AIDS Serodiagnosis

Ethics, Medical

Internationality

Pharmaceutical Preparations

Employment

Poverty

Prejudice

Epidemiology

Publication Formats

Patient Care Management

Tissue Donors

Environment and Public Health

Economics

Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services

Medicine

Patient Rights

Forensic Psychiatry

Disease

Health

Sociology

Disease Attributes

Persons

HIV Infections

Blood Coagulation Disorders, Inherited

Social Control Policies

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

Investigative Techniques

Biological Therapy

Serologic Tests

Organizations

Social Sciences

Sexuality

Coagulation Protein Disorders

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Humanities

Psychology, Social

Social Problems

Hemorrhagic Disorders

Socioeconomic Factors

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Chemicals and Drugs

Ethics, Clinical

Research

Slow Virus Diseases

Occupational Groups

Biomedical Research

Communications Media



Mental Disorders

Genetic Diseases, Inborn

Policy

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes

Human Rights

Immunologic Tests

Science

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral

Population Characteristics

Therapeutics

Virus Diseases

Psychiatry and Psychology

Publication Characteristics

Sexual Behavior

Psychiatry

Reproductive Physiological Phenomena

Health Services Administration

Named Groups

Information Science

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment

Ethics, Professional

Blood Coagulation Disorders

Pathologic Processes

Lentivirus Infections

Hematologic Diseases

Health Occupations

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Ethics

Immunologic Techniques

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Immune System Diseases

Laboratory Techniques and Procedures

Behavior

Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Retroviridae Infections

Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases

Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena

Natural Science Disciplines

Disciplines and Occupations

Behavioral Sciences

RNA Virus Infections

Diagnosis

Phenomena and Processes

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Communicable Diseases

Health & Biological Sciences



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph