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Lynn McDonal - Florence Nightingale on Wars and the Office - 9780889204706 - V9780889204706
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Florence Nightingale on Wars and the Office

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Description for Florence Nightingale on Wars and the Office Hardcover. Demonstrates Nightingale's astute use of the political process and report on her extensive correspondence with royalty, viceroys, cabinet ministers and international leaders, including such notables as Queen Victoria and W E Gladstone. This title contains material on family relations. Num Pages: 1056 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: HBW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 65. Weight in Grams: 1570.

Volume 15 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Wars and the War Office, picks up on the previous volume's recounting of Nightingale's famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive analysis she did on its high death rates. This volume moves on to the implementation of the recommendations that emerged from that research and to her work to reduce deaths in the next wars, beginning with the American Civil War.

Nightingale's writings describe the creation of the Army Medical School, the vast improvements made in the statistical tracking of disease, and new measures for soldiers' ... Read more

Nightingale was decorated by both sides for her work in the Franco-Prussian War. While much of her work concerned the mundane sending out of supplies, we see also in her writing her emerging interest in militarism as the cause of war. Her opposition to the Afghan War (of her time) and her work to provide nursing for the Egyptian campaigns, the Zulu War, and the start of the Boer War are also included.

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Product Details

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
800
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1569 g
Number of Pages
1056
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9780889204706
SKU
V9780889204706
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Lynn McDonal
Lynn McDonald, director of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is university professor emerita at the University of Guelph. She is an environmentalist, a former member of parliament, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and a long-time activist on womens issues. She has an honorary doctorate from York University.

Reviews for Florence Nightingale on Wars and the Office
``The Nightingale project ranks with both the Gladstone diaries and the Disraeli letters as a major undertaking in the field of Victorian-era scholarship, and therefore is of surpassing value to historians of the period, as well as to general readers.''
C. Brad Faught, Tyndale University College, Toronto
Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 81 (1), March 2012, 201204 ``The ... Read more

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