Beschrijving van het leven van Nederlands eerste vrouwelijke minister (1912-1986) en de totstandkoming van de Algemene Bijstandswet van 1965.

The history of the militant suffragettes.

Traces Puerto Rican industrialization since the 1950s from the point of view of a young girl, covering incidents that are important to children but often dismissed as trivial by adults

A new edition of Mayo's controversial 1927 book, with commentary that sheds new light on Indian nationalism of this period

Sasha Davis recalls the experiences that followed her high school initiation into the rites of middle class society

Traces the lives of four generations of one family scattered over New York, England, and India, whose involvement with a mysterious spiritual leader tests their ties to each other

Shares the experiences of homeless women, looks at the problem of homelessness from historical, sociological, and psychological perspectives, and argues that the real problem is not mental incapacity, but a lack of affordable housing

De geschiedenis van vijf families in Rotterdam.

another true war story, Germany 1939-1945

Offers a portrait of the life of a remarkable American woman, profiling the seminal role played by Dolley Madison amid the turbulent and complex political, social, and cultural world of the early nineteenth century.

The relationship between China and Japan remains among the most significant of all the worldâe(tm)s bilateral affairsâe"yet it is also the most tortured and the least understood. Akira Iriye adds brilliant clarity to the past century of Chineseâe"Japanese interactions in this masterful interpretive survey. Placing the relationship within its global context, he outlines three distinct periods in the history of these Asian giants. From the 1880s to World War I, the two nations struggled for power. Armaments, war strategies, and security measures played pivotal roles, reflecting the importance 0f military calculations in a world dominated by Western governments. In the second period, that between the two World Wars, Iriye illuminates the dominant role of culture and the stress on internationalism. Chinaâe(tm)s continuing literary influence, an exchange of ideas and students reforms such as Japanâe(tm)s Taisho democracy and Chinaâe(tm)s May Fourth movement, and both nationsâe(tm) bid for racial equality in the West profoundly affected these interwar years. The third period reaches from the end of World War II through the present day, and is characterized by exchanges of an economic nature: trade, shipping, investment, and emigration. The author discusses the results of Chinaâe(tm)s civil war, the rise and decline 0f the Cold War in the West, and the cultural and ecological problems brought by Japanâe(tm)s spiraling economic development. But economic ties remain deeply entwined with cultural concerns, and ultimately, Iriye stresses, the future of China and Japan depends on the successful cultural interdependence of what may be the most significant pair of countries in the world today.

Met z-w foto's.

Met opdracht van de auteur tegenover het voorwoord, met z-w en kleurenfoto's.

Between 1973 and 1984, sixty-one countries participated in a ground-breaking survey of human fertility organized by the World Fertility Survey (WFS). By interviewing thousands of women between the ages of 15 and 49, the WFS made available for the first time a survey of this size and scope.This volume follows the cycle of the monumental project--from the design and execution of the survey through the analyses and dissemination of results to the implications for future approaches and government policies.