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Latin America and the Global Cold War
No full textLatin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America’s forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America. It uncovers a multitude of overlapping and sometimes conflicting iterations of Third Worldist movements in Latin America, and offers insights for better understanding the region’s past, as well as its possible futures, challenging us to consider how the Global Cold War continues to inform Latin America’s ongoing political struggles.
Contributors: Miguel Serra Coelho, Thomas C. Field Jr., Sarah Foss, Michelle Getchell, Eric Gettig, Alan McPherson, Stella Krepp, Eline van Ommen, Eugenia Palieraki, Vanni Pettinà, Tobias Rupprecht, David M. K. Sheinin, Christy Thornton, Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva, and Odd Arne Westad
Thomas Hazard Jr letter to Thomas Rotch, New York 6 mo 10, 1821
No full textThe author acknowledges receipt of letters after the Rotch return to Kendal, Ohio in the late spring of 1821. Thomas Hazard mentions that his whaling ship, Dawn, has sailed to the Pacific Ocean with 23 hands on board and provisions for three years. He hopes to visit Kendal in the Fall, he also mentions that William Rotch Jr was recovering from a fever.
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Book Review: Thomas C. Field, Jr. From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era.
No full textThis document offers reviews and discussion of Thomas C. Field, Jr.’s book From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5260-4 (hardcover, $45.00)
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Letter From Emmett L. Bennett Jr. to Thomas G. Palaima, October 30, 1986
No full textBennett sends Palaima a picture of himself and other ASCSA members in the field of Ano Englianos, Greece. The picture, from left to right, includes: John McK. Camp II, director ASCSA excavations of Athenian Agora and now, too, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Classics Randolph-Macon College. Gail Hoffman, then regular member ASCSA 86-87 and now professor of Classical Studies Boston College. Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., longtime ASCSA member and then professor of Classics and institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin Madison. Joe Walsh, then Oscar Broneer Fellow ASCSA 86-87 and now professor of Classics and History at Loyola University Maryland. Bill Hutton, then regular member of the ASCSA and graduate student at UT Austin. Now associate professor, Classical Studies, William and Mary College.Classic
Book Reviews
No full textReviews of the following books prepared by Thomas G. Field, Jr., Editor-in-Chief of Risk:
Stephen D. Sugarman, Doing Away with Personal Injury Law, (1989).
Chet Fleming, If We can Keep a Severed Head Alive, (1988)
Author Thomas Dixon, Jr.
No full textAuthor Thomas Dixon, Jr.To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see:
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H-Diplo Article Review 831- Field Jr. on D’Haeseleer. “American Civic Action: The National Campaign Plan and the Failure to Win ‘Hearts and Minds’ in El Salvador.”
No full textThe author - Dr. Thomas Field - reviews Brian D’Haeseleer\u27s article “American Civic Action: The National Campaign Plan and the Failure to Win ‘Hearts and Minds’ in El Salvador.” This article appeared in Diplomacy and Statecraft, issue 26:3 (2015), on pages 494-513. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2015.1067527
Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
No full textFront and back photograph of Thomas Dixon, Jr.; autographed. Dixon is a Wake Forest College alumnus, and author of The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905). The book was adapted for the screen in The Birth of a Nation in 1915
The Politics of Motion: The World of Thomas Hobbes
No full textTwo principal issues interact and overlap in this penetrating analysis: the relationship between Hobbes’ natural philosophy and his civil philosophy, and the relationship between Hobbes’ thought and the Aristotelian world view that constituted the philosophical orthodoxy he rejected.
On the first point Thomas A. Spragens Jr. argues that Hobbes’ political ideas were in fact significantly influenced by his cosmological perceptions, although they were not, and could not have been, completely derived from that source. On the second, the author demonstrates that Hobbes undertook a highly systematic transformation of Aristotelian cosmology: he borrowed the form of the Aristotelian cosmology, but radically refashioned its substance to accommodate the discoveries of contemporaries such as Galileo.
Thomas A. Spragens Jr. is assistant professor of political science at Duke University.
The author’s learning is both deep and broad, and his insights into many matters startingly penetrating. This appears to me to be a permanent contribution to the analysis of political theory. —Russell Kirkhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_philosophy/1002/thumbnail.jp
Francis Jr., Thomas
No full textThomas Francis Jr., circa late 1950s. Photograph by Fabian Bachrach
Thomas Francis Jr. (1900 – 1969) was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in the United States, and in 1940 showed that there are other strains of influenza, and took part in the development of influenza vaccine.
Thomas Francis, Jr. graduated from Allegheny College in 1921 and received the MD from Yale University in 1925. In 1928 he joined the Rockefeller Institute. Between 1935 and 1941, he served as professor of bacteriology and chair of the department at the New York University College of Medicine. In 1941 he joined the newly established School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, where he remained for the rest of his career. Francis is credited with being the first in the US to isolate the influenza virus, in 1935, and with developing the first killed-virus flu vaccine. He is also remembered for designing, supervising, and evaluating the 1950s field trials of the polio vaccine developed by his protege, Jonas Salk. Among many awards and honors, Francis received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom (1946) and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2005, the University of Michigan established the Thomas Francis, Jr. Medal in Global Public Health.
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Years at the Rockefeller Institute: 1928-1935https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/scientific-staff/1016/thumbnail.jp
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