This reprint provides an opportunity for scholars to investigate some early academic study of welfare and militarization in African society. It is an early guide to the nature and evolution of Africanist debate on war and its place in African social development...
This study demonstrates the emergence and development of the identity of the ‘military medical officer’ and places their work within the broader context of changes to British medicine during the first half of the nineteenth century...
This study demonstrates the emergence and development of the identity of the ‘military medical officer’ and places their work within the broader context of changes to British medicine during the first half of the nineteenth century...
During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton presents a comparative study of the role of tracking in insurgency and counter-insurgency across Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia...
Despite their catastrophic effects, wars have proved to be instrumental to long-term change in world history. This text is the first of its kind to survey how warfare has developed from ancient times to the present day...
Following the shifting demographics of the welfare rolls, policy debates about welfare, the institutional history and major turning points over the past seventy years, Welfare in the United States serves as the complete guide to the history of the American welfare program...