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UNISA996207149003316 |
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Autore |
Colman Jonathan |
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Titolo |
A 'special relationship'? [[e-book] ] : Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Anglo-American relations 'at the summit', 1964-68 / / Jonathan Colman |
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Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
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New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004 |
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1-5261-3720-8 |
1-280-71962-1 |
9786610719624 |
1-84779-107-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Summit meetings |
United States Foreign relations Great Britain |
Great Britain Foreign relations United States |
Great Britain Foreign relations 1964-1979 |
United States Foreign relations 1963-1969 |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-187) and index. |
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Introduction -- 1. The approach to the summit -- 2. The Washington summit, 7-9 December 1964 -- 3. From discord to cordiality, January-April 1965 -- 4. 'A battalion would be worth a billion'? May-December 1965 -- 5. Dissociation, January-July 1966 -- 6. A declining relationship, August 1966-September 1967 -- 7. One ally among many, October 1967-December 1968 -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
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This is the first full-length study of the fraught and controversial personal relationship between Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Lyndon B Johnson, placed in the context of such issues as the Vietnam War, British economic weakness and the UK's dissociation from American measures in Vietnam. |
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UNINA9910781310203321 |
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Autore |
Langwick Stacey Ann |
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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing [[electronic resource] ] : The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania / / Stacey A. Langwick |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Anthropology, Cultural - Tanzania |
Medicine, African Traditional - Tanzania |
Medical care - Tanzania |
Traditional medicine - Tanzania |
Electronic books. |
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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 (p. [273]-290) and index. |
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A short genealogy of traditional medicine -- Witchcraft, oracles, and native medicine -- Making Tanzanian traditional medicine -- Hailing traditional experts -- Healers and their intimate becomings -- Traditional birth attendants as institutional evocations -- Healing matters -- Alternative materialities -- Interferences and inclusions -- Shifting existences, or being and not-being. |
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This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and p |
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