ISBN: 9780691094274

"Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville" offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century Seville as a case study of… More...

"Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville" offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century Seville as a case study of how municipal officials and residents worked together to create a public health response to epidemics that protected both individual and communal interests. It argues in particular for a redefinition of what "public health" meant in the early modern era, noting the efforts of city officials to protect both individual health and communal welfare as they negotiated a series of balances: between individual and communal needs, between public health and economic needs, between municipal and royal interests. Based on extensive primary sources held in the municipal archive of Seville, the work argues that a careful reading of the records shows a critical difference between how plague regulations were written and how they were enforced, a difference that reflects an unacknowledged process of negotiation aimed at preserving balance within the community. The book makes an important contribution to the scholarly history of epidemics, and in particular to the study of the impact of plague in Spain, which until now has received scant attention from historians. Kristy Wilson Bowers received her PhD from Indiana University and teaches in the History Department at Northern Illinois University. Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City Siegel, James T., Princeton University Press<

ISBN: 0691094276

In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Orde… More...

In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their own complex ideas of deference and hierarchy through translation between high and low Javanese speech styles. Siegel uncovers moments when translation fails and compulsive mimicry ensues. His examination of communication and its failures also exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the "accidents" that precede the formulations of culture as such. anthropology,education and reference,foreign language,foreign language dictionaries and thesauruses,foreign language fiction,foreign language learning,foreign language study,foreign language study and reference,foreign languages,general Linguistics, Princeton University Press<

ISBN: 0691094276

Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780691094274], Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, Book, [PU: Princeton University Press], Princeton University Press, 15095930031, Anthropol… More...

Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9780691094274], Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, Book, [PU: Princeton University Press], Princeton University Press, 15095930031, Anthropologie, 3234481, Sozialwissenschaft, 541686, Kategorien, 186606, Bücher, 69109011, Anthropologie, 69108011, Sozialwissenschaften, 69028011, Sachbücher, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<

ISBN: 9780691094274

Hardcover book. 338 pages. Published by Princeton University Press Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]