Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model... citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigration in San Francisco, this book looks at the history of racial formation in the U.S. by focusing on the development of public health bureaucracies.Nayan Shah notes how the production of Chinese difference and white, heterosexual norms in public health policy affected social lives, politics, and cultural expression. Public health authorities depicted Chinese immigrants as filthy and diseased, as the carriers of such incurable afflictions as smallpox, syphilis, and bubonic plague. This resulted in the vociferous enforcement of sanitary regulations on the Chinese community. But the authorities did more than demon-ize the Chinese; they also marshaled civic resources that promoted sewer construction, vaccination programs, and public health management.Shah shows how Chinese Americans responded to health regulations and allegations with persuasive political speeches, lawsuits, boycotts, violent protests, and poems. Chinese American activists drew upon public health strategies in their advocacy for health services and public housing. Adroitly employing discourses of race and health, these activists argued that Chinese Americans were worthy and deserving of sharing in the resources of American society.

Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to... protect--with U.S. armed forces if necessary--the territorial integrity and political independence of these nations from the threat of "international Communism." Salim Yaqub demonstrates that although the United States officially aimed to protect the Middle East from Soviet encroachment, the Eisenhower Doctrine had the unspoken mission of containing the radical Arab nationalism of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom Eisenhower regarded as an unwitting agent of Soviet expansionism. By offering aid and protection, the Eisenhower administration hoped to convince a majority of Arab governments to side openly with the West in the Cold War, thus isolating Nasser and decreasing the likelihood that the Middle East would fall under Soviet domination. Employing a wide range of recently declassified Egyptian, British, and American archival sources, Yaqub offers a dynamic and comprehensive account of Eisenhower's efforts to counter Nasserism's appeal throughout the Arab Middle East. Challenging interpretations of U.S.-Arab relations that emphasize cultural antipathies and clashing values, Yaqub instead argues that the political dispute between the United States and the Nasserist movement occurred within a shared moral framework--a pattern that continues to characterize U.S.-Arab controversies today.

Nationalism has become the most prevalent source of political conflict and violence in the world today. Scholarship has provided scant guidance for... containing the dark side of nationalism--its widely publicized excesses of violence, such as ethnic cleansing and genocide. Based on fundamental theoretical ideas about the formation and solidarity of groups, Containing Nationalism offers a groundbreaking unified explanation of the dynamics of nationalism across the broad sweep of history and geography. Michael Hechter argues that the impetus for the most common type of nationalism arises from the imposition of direct rule in culturally heterogeneous societies--stimulating national identity, reducing the resources of local elites, motivating the mobilization of nationalist opposition to central authorities, and ultimately heightening the demand for sovereignty. Hechter suggests that political institutions that reintroduce indirect rule offer the leaders of modern countries the best available means of containing nationalist violence within their borders.

In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House—the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new... work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In Containing the Poor Silvia Marina Arrom tells the saga of this ill-fated plan, showing how the asylum functioned primarily to educate white orphans instead of suppressing mendicancy and exerting control over the multiracial community for whom it was designed. For a nation that had traditionally regarded the needy as having the undisputed right to receive alms and whose affluent citizens felt duty-bound to dispense them, the experiment was doomed from the start, explains Arrom. She uses deep archival research to reveal that—much to policymakers’ dismay—the Poor House became an orphanage largely because the government had underestimated the embeddedness of this moral economy of begging. While tracing the course of an eventful century that also saw colonialism give way to republicanism in Mexico, Arrom links the Poor House’s transformation with other societal factors as well, such as Mexican women’s increasing impact on social welfare policies. With poverty, begging, and homelessness still rampant in much of Latin America today, this study of changing approaches to social welfare will be particularly valuable to student and scholars of Mexican and Latin American society and history, as well as those engaged in the study of social and welfare policy.

Presents the theoretical background as well as the practical application of the latest technology for the investigation and remediation of contaminated... soil and groundwater. Coverage of micropurging of wells prior to sampling; obtaining a ground water sample without a monitoring well; fingerprinting petroleum contamination in soil; soil and groundwater contamination from coal tar and related compounds; and contains a number of case histories showing the practical applications of the theory. A valuable reference for the working professional.

In this wholly revised Second Edition, Michael Edelstein draws on his thirty years as a community activist to provide a much-expanded theoretical... foundation for understanding the psychosocial impacts of toxic contamination. Informed by social psychological theory and an extensive survey of documented cases of toxic exposure, and enlivened by excerpts drawn from more than a thousand interviews with victims, Contaminated Communities presents a candid portrayal of the toxic victim's experience and the key stages in the course of toxic disaster. The Second Edition introduces dozens of new cases and provides expanded considerations of environmental justice, environmental racism, environmental turbulence, and environmental stigma, as well as a fully articulated theory of "lifescape." The new edition moves past the well-charted role of reactive environmentalism to explore issues for a proactivist approach that employs a "third path" of social learning, sustainable innovation, consensus building, and community empowerment.

Everyday for 14 years Gerry Radano sat alone on her living room couch riveted in fear and suffering repeated panic attacks. Everyday, Gerry sprayed an... entire can of Lysol on everything she touched, changed her clothes six to eight times a day, and washed her hands over 200 times to avoid the germs that she was convinced were contaminating her. Everyday for 14 years, Gerry woke up with the same prayer, "Please God, let me die today." Gerry suffered with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a neurological brain disease that affects 1 in 40 people, or nearly seven million Americans. OCD may have taken her mind but it did not take her spirit. Contaminated describes the extraordinary journey Radano made to take back her life and triumph over a disease her doctors had pronounced incurable

This book provides an introductory understanding of fluvial geomorphic principles and how these principles can be integrated with geochemical data to... cost-effectively characterize, assess and remediate contaminated rivers. The book stresses the importance of needing to understand both geomorphic and geochemical processes. Thus, the overall presentation is first an analysis of physical and chemical processes and, second, a discussion of how an understanding of these processes can be applied to specific aspects of site assessment and remediation. Such analyses provide the basis for a realistic prediction of the kinds of environmental responses that might be expected, for example, during future changes in climate or land-use.

Contatti is aimed at adult learners and university students wishing to learn Italian. Whether learning for work or pleasure, Contatti gives a thorough... grounding in the language enabling learners to speak, read, write and understand contemporary Italian. Part 2 of the course puts an emphasis on communication, with modern and authentic reading and listening materials providing the basis for a wide range of interesting activities. The use of English is kept to a minimum but full vocabulary and grammar support are provided. With 2 audio CDs included in the book. Contatti 2 is the perfect follow-on for anyone who has already studied the basics of Italian, covering all the skills and structures required to bridge the gap between intermediate and advanced level.

173pages. poche. broché. L'histoire est classique du buveur désintoxiqué qui, après des années d'absolue sobriété, s'autorise soudain un petit... verre. Juste un petit verre. Et replonge. A fond. Mais l'on ne se soûle pas que d'alcool. Parfois on ne retombe que pour mieux ressusciter. Retourner à son vice, à son démon -à son art -ouvre de somptueux vertiges, interdits aux repentis. Voyez Simon Nardis, le nouveau personnage de Christian Gailly. Il a suffi d'un soir au club, un petit club de province, pour qu'il se remette à la vodka. et au jazz. Dix ans plus tôt, pianiste renommé, il avait abandonné pour raisons de santé. Il était devenu bon mari, bon père, bonspécialiste du chauffage industriel, n'écoutant plus que de la musique classique: A défaut de swing il se gavait de beauté. Ayant une heure à tuer avant de rentrer chez lui par le train, il accompagne dans le club un ingénieur dont il vient de dépanner l'usine. Et, d'entrée, il est secoué. Dans l'excellente façon de jouer des trois jeunes musiciens américains, il reconnaît. . . son style. Un style qui avait pas mal chamboulé la pratique du piano en jazz. Pendant la pause du trio il se met au clavier. La patronne du club le reconnaît à son jeu. Bientôt elle le rejoint sur l'estrade, se penche vers lui, reprend la mélodie au vol. Et c'est le bonheur qui revient. Fulgurant. La nuit qui suit et le lendemain, entre cet homme près de la retraite etcette femme qui avait bien l'âge qu'elle ne faisait pas va s'amplifier et se concrétiser ce bonheur. Jusqu'à se vouloir éternel. Et la femme de Simon dans tout ça ? Elle arrive. En voiture. N'en disons surtout pas plus. Il serait criminel de dévoiler ne serait-ce qu'un soupçon de la suite de l'intrigue, elle-même criminelle. A sa façon. (Jean-P...