Maksudyan approaches the experience of World War I in the Ottoman lands from the perspective of social history, focusing on how total mobilization altered the "lives behind the lines" through the testimony of children. She discusses how issues like lack of education, work force …
""Nicholas Terpstra uses the puzzling deaths of teenaged girls in a Florentine asylum for the poor to take us into many surprising corners in the life of working people, and especially women, in that sixteenth-century city--sexual, medical, religious, and more. A fascinating Ren…
""Nicholas Terpstra uses the puzzling deaths of teenaged girls in a Florentine asylum for the poor to take us into many surprising corners in the life of working people, and especially women, in that sixteenth-century city--sexual, medical, religious, and more. A fascinating Ren…
Part 1. Generations of HIV/AIDS, orphanhood, and intervention. - 1 A generation of HIV/AIDS in Uganda. - 2 Orphanhood and the conundrum of humanitarian intervention. - Part 2. Beyond checking the "voice" box : children's rights and participation in development and research. - 3 …
"The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropolog…