Reflecting recent trends towards interdisciplinary and multilevel analyses of mental health and mental health care, this volume provides a cross-section of research into an increasingly important part of socio-medical studies. Mental illness and handicap are widespread in developed countries, and are coming to be recognized as major health problems especially in the wake of substantial progress in eliminating the many severely disabling of fatal diseases prevalent in pre-industrial and industrial rimes. Although medical resources are currently concentrated on the chronic and degenerative diseases, there is a growing awareness that mental illness and related disorders generate enormous economic costs and have a devastating impact on the lives of many more people than are formally registered under care.The overall level of mental health within a population is a result of the interactions between many factors. These can be viewed as four clusters: individual effects, environmental ef

Location and Stigma: Contemporary Perspectives on Mental Health and Mental Health Care

Smith, Christopher J.

Medical Books

Unwin Hyman

An 390. Terre hybride écartelée entre administration romaine et monarchies ancestrales, la Bretagne échappe au contrôle de Rome tout en souffrant des incursions ennemies. La régence devient le théâtre d’une lutte entre peuples et fratries. Des clans se dressent, intriguent, assujettissent ; d’autres s’éteignent. Nommé général des dernières garnisons du Mur d’Hadrien, le roi Coel de Brigantie profite du déclin de la mainmise impériale pour s’imposer comme le seul Haut-Roi digne de ce nom. Fille d’un modeste chef de village, la jeune Eiriànn s’éveille au monde qui l’entoure. Dotée d’un discernement qui la pousse à agir, elle ne se satisfait pas de sa condition. Consciente que son peuple est menacé d’extinction, elle consacre son intelligence à défier les codes établis. Quand son chemin croise celui de Coel, Eiriànn se retrouve confrontée à un choix : soutenir ce régent pétri d’ambitions ou restaurer la gloire de son royaume décadent ?

Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History (Music in American Life)

Literature & Fiction

University of Illinois Press

The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy (Music in American Life)

The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic working-class community of New York's Lower East Side, Mount took part in the black-white musical interchange his paintings depict. An avid musician and tune collector as well as an artist, he was the among the first to depict vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers precisely and sympathetically. His close observations and meticulous renderings provide rich evidence of performance techniques and class-inflected paths of musical apprenticeship that connected white and black practitioners. Looking closely at the bodies and instruments Mount depicts in his paintings as well as other ephemera, Christopher J. Smith traces the performance practices of African American and Anglo-European music-and-dance traditions while recovering the sounds of that world. Further, Smith uses Mount's depictions of black and white music-making to open up fresh perspectives on cross-ethnic cultural transference in Northern and urban contexts, showing how rivers, waterfronts, and other sites of interracial interaction shaped musical practices by transporting musical culture from the South to the North and back. The "Africanization" of Anglo-Celtic tunes created minstrelsy's musical "creole synthesis," a body of melodic and rhythmic vocabularies, repertoires, tunes, and musical techniques that became the foundation of American popular music. Reading Mount's renderings of black and white musicians against a background of historical sites and practices of cross-racial interaction, Smith offers a sophisticated interrogation and reinterpretation of minstrelsy, significantly broadening historical views of black-white musical exchange.

Arts & Photography

Music

Throughout American history, patterns of political intent and impact have linked the wide range of dance movements performed in public places. Groups diverse in their cultural or political identities, or in both, long ago seized on dancing in our streets, marches, open-air revival meetings, and theaters, as well as in dance halls and nightclubs, as a tool for contesting, constructing, or reinventing the social order. Dancing Revolution presents richly diverse cases studies to illuminate these patterns of movement and influence in movement and sound in the history of American public life. Christopher J. Smith spans centuries, geographies, and cultural identities as he delves into a wide range of historical moments. These include: the God-intoxicated public demonstrations of Shakers and Ghost Dancers in the First and Second Great Awakenings; creolized antebellum dance in cities from New Orleans to Bristol; the modernism and racial integration that imbued twentieth-century African American popular dance; and public movement's contributions to hip hop, anti-hegemonic protest, and other contemporary transgressive communities’ physical expressions of dissent and solidarity. Multidisciplinary and wide-ranging, Dancing Revolution examines how Americans turned the rhythms of history into the movement behind the movements.

The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic working-class community of New York's Lower East Side, Mount took part in the black-white musical interchange his paintings depict. An avid musician and tune collector as well as an artist, he was the among the first to depict vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers precisely and sympathetically. His close observations and meticulous renderings provide rich evidence of performance techniques and class-inflected paths of musical apprenticeship that connected white and black practitioners.  Looking closely at the bodies and instruments Mount depicts in his paintings as well as other ephemera, Christopher J. Smith traces the performance practices of African American and Anglo-European music-and-dance traditions while recovering the sounds of that world. Further, Smith uses Mount's depictions of black and white music-making to open up fresh perspectives on cross-ethnic cultural transference in Northern and urban contexts, showing how rivers, waterfronts, and other sites of interracial interaction shaped musical practices by transporting musical culture from the South to the North and back. The "Africanization" of Anglo-Celtic tunes created minstrelsy's musical "creole synthesis," a body of melodic and rhythmic vocabularies, repertoires, tunes, and musical techniques that became the foundation of American popular music. Reading Mount's renderings of black and white musicians against a background of historical sites and practices of cross-racial interaction, Smith offers a sophisticated interrogation and reinterpretation of minstrelsy, significantly broadening historical views of black-white musical exchange.

China: In the Post-Utopian Age

Reference

Routledge

China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change (Changing Regions in a Global Context: New Perspectives in Regional Geography Ser)

Despite China's obvious and growing importance on the world stage, it is often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey of contemporary China vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition that offers the only sustained geography of the reform era, this book traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments, and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, the authors present contemporary China as a product of both internal and external forces of past and present. They trace current and future successes and challenges while placing China in its international context as a massive, still-developing nation that must meet the needs of its 1.3 billion citizens while becoming a major regional and global player. Through clear prose and new, dynamic maps and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the great differences in economy and culture found throughout China's many regions.

Politics & Social Sciences

Veeck, Gregory

Pannell, Clifton W.

Huang, Youqin

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

China: People And Places In The Land Of One Billion

Informed by a geographer's perspective, this text portrays a vast country where distance still acts as a major constraint on social interaction, where the population is so huge that demand for resources almost always outstrips supply, and where regional variations have produced a rich mosaic of human and physical characteristics. The author portrays the relatively unexplored world of everyday life in China by examining the exodus from countryside to city, the status of women after decades of Confucian oppression, and the future for ethnic minorities. This text should be useful as an introduction to China in all relevant disciplines.

History

Asia

Westview Press

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Location and Stigma: Contemporary Perspectives on Mental Health and Mental Health Care

Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History (Music in American Life)

The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy (Music in American Life)

Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History (Music in American Life)

The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy (Music in American Life)

Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History (Music in American Life)

China: In the Post-Utopian Age

China: In the Post-Utopian Age

China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change (Changing Regions in a Global Context: New Perspectives in Regional Geography Ser)

China: People And Places In The Land Of One Billion