Month: April 2018 (Page 2 of 3)

Here is a selection of the 14 items added to the catalogue in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required

Colonial caring: a history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /edited by Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins. Issues of gender, class and race permeate this book, as the complex relationships between nurses, their medical colleagues, governments and the populations they nursed are examined in detail, using case studies which draw on exciting new sources. Many of the chapters are based on first-hand accounts of nurses and reveal that not all were motivated by patriotic vigour or altruism, but went out in search of adventure. The book will be an essential read for colonial historians, as well as historians of gender and ethnicity.

Feminism and the politics of childhood: friends or foes? /edited by Rachel Rosen & Katherine Twamley. Feminism and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of perceived commonalities and conflicts between women and children and, more broadly, between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood. This unique collection of 18 chapters brings into dialogue authors from a range of geographical contexts, social science disciplines, activist organisations, and theoretical perspectives. The wide variety of subjects include refugee camps, care labour, domestic violence and childcare and education. Together the contributions offer new ways to conceptualise relations between women and children, and to address injustices faced by both groups.

Lectures in America /Gertrude Stein. Introduces the American reader to the whole field of modern European art – ranging widely throughout painting, literature, and music.

Maria Petyt: a Carmelite mystic in wartime /edited by Joseph Chalmers, Elisabeth Hense, Veronie Meeuwsen, Esther van de Vate. Based on the discovery of a previously unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt – A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt  who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine. The book contains a transcription of the manuscript, an English translation of it, and several articles opening up new horizons concerning the life and spirituality of Maria Petyt and her historical and religious backgrounds. The authors characterize Maria Petyt as a self-confident spiritual daughter with a strong political mission, a zealous figure fighting side by side with Louis XIV for the catholic victory during the Dutch War, and as one who lived and profoundly understood the spirituality of Teresa of Avila.

Nepal and the gospel of God [electronic resource] /by Jonathan Lindell for the United Mission to Nepal. The rate of church growth in Nepal is one of the fastest in the world. This growth is not primarily due to the presence of foreign missionary agencies that have been present in the country since the 1950s. Rather it has been through the evangelistic efforts of the Nepali people themselves, reaching out despite the risk of imprisonment for proselytising. This book tells the story of the church in Nepal up to 1979.

The Oxford handbook of political theory /edited by John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips. his Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recentpast, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory’s edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.

Resistance and renewal: surviving the Indian residential school /Celia Haig-Brown. Presents Native perspectives of the Kamloops Indian Residential School and a general overview of the evolution of Native education.

Revolutionizing a world: from small states to universalism in the pre-Islamic Near East /Mark Altaweel and Andrea Squitieri. This book investigates the long-term continuity of large-scale states and empires, and its effect on the Near East’s social fabric, including the fundamental changes that occurred to major social institutions. Its geographical coverage spans, from east to west, modern-day Libya and Egypt to Central Asia, and from north to south, Anatolia to southern Arabia, incorporating modern-day Oman and Yemen. Its temporal coverage spans from the late eighth century BCE to the seventh century CE during the rise of Islam and collapse of the Sasanian Empire. The authors argue that the persistence of large states and empires starting in the eighth/seventh centuries BCE, which continued for many centuries, led to new socio-political structures and institutions emerging in the Near East. This book’s argument is framed within a larger theoretical framework termed as ‘universalism’, a theory that explains many of the social transformations that happened to societies in the Near East, starting from the Neo-Assyrian period and continuing for centuries.