Author: Adell Patton
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: west, africa, diaspora, racism, colonial, physicians
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1996-04-13
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0813014328
ISBN-13: 9780813014326

Discussing the role of African doctors in colonial state and society, this study assesses the emergence of Africa’s modern medical service and the contribution of African physicians to an understanding of African diseases and their treatment.

Author: MOHAMMAD GHOLI MAJD
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: iran, plunder, shah, reza, britain
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-09-25
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0813021111
ISBN-13: 9780813021119

Using recently declassified U.S. State Department archives, Mohammad Gholi Majd describes the rampant tyranny and destruction of Iran in the decades between the two world wars in a sensational yet thoroughly scholarly study that will rewrite the political and economic history of the country. The book begins with the British invasion of Iran in April 1918 and ends with the Anglo-Russian invasion in August 1941. Though historians are aware of the events that ensued, until now they have had no written evidence of the dreadful magnitude of the activities. Majd documents how the British brought to

Authors:Bonnie Braendlin, Hans Braendli,
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: film, literature, conference, selected, papers, university, florida, transgression, authority, state
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1996-10-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813014360
ISBN-13: 9780813014364

Well-known scholars in the fields of literature and film address the issues of authority and transgression as sociocultural phenomena, discussing such topics as male and female sexuality, socioeconomic formations, history and myth, the relative power of fictionality, genre, canon formation, cinematic conventions, and conventions of academic discourse. Book DescriptionWell-known scholars in the fields of literature and film address the issues of authority and transgression as sociocultural phenomena, discussing such topics as male and female sexuality, socioeconomic formations, history and myt

Authors:John E. Reynolds, Samantha D. Eide, Randall S. Wel
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: conservation, biology, dolphin, bottlenose
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-09-03
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0813017750
ISBN-13: 9780813017754

Aimed at students, academics and general readers, this work provides an introduction and overview to the biology and conservation of the bottlenose dolphin. It reviews the historical myths and legends of the dolphin, before going on to discuss contemporary human attitudes and interactions.

Author: ALBERT J. SBRAGIA
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: crosscurrents, gainesville, fla, macaronic, modern, emilio, gadda, carlo
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1996-09-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0813014638
ISBN-13: 9780813014630

This is an historical and thematic appreciation of the Italian novelist Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973). It emphasizes his involvment in World War I and Italian Fascism, and situates him in an expressionistic tradition that has its roots in the modernist crises of realist and linguistic minesis.

Authors:Raymond L. Goldsteen, John K. Schorr,
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: island, three, democracy, demanding
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 1991-09-20
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 081301073X
ISBN-13: 9780813010731

Goldsteen and Schorr document the development of mistrust of the government from the nuclear power industry and the citizens near Three Mile Island regarding the 1979 disaster at the plant. (Environmental Studies)

Authors:JANE SHAPIRO ZACEK, ILPYONG J. KIM,
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: bloc, soviet, legacy
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1997-05-03
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0813014751
ISBN-13: 9780813014753

Contributors consider why communist political systems in the USSR, Eastern Europe, China and the developing world could not be revamped so as to allow communist parties to retain political power within an environment of reform. Among the issues discussed are the unwillingness of communist parties to relinquish real political and economic control; the reemergence of virulent nationalism and its role in ensuring the disintegration of multinational states; postcommunist transition strategies, both political and economic and the degree of continuity of change between Soviet and post-Soviet foreign