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Título: La frontera: Mito y Realidad del Nuevo Mundo. Actas del congreso celebrado en la Universidad de León, 13 - 17 Septiembre 1993 Autor: Mª José Álvarez Maurín, Manuel Broncano Rodríguez, Jose Luis Chamosa Gonzalez ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-7719-442-2 Deposito legal: Dimensiones: 17x24cm Nº de paginas: 389 Año: 1994

How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award from the Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage Racism in the US health care system has been deliberately undermining Black health care professionals and exacerbating health disparities among Black Americans for centuries These health disparities only became a mainstream issue on the agenda of US health leaders and policy makers because a group of health professions schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities banded together to fight for health equity We ll Fight It Out Here tells the story of how the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools AMHPS was founded by this coalition and the hard won influence it built in American politics and health care David Chanoff and Louis W Sullivan former secretary of health & human services detail how the struggle for equity has been fought in the field of health care where bias and disparities continue to be volatile national issues Chanoff and Sullivan outline the history of Black health care from pre Emancipation to today centering on the work of AMHPS which brought to light health care inequities in 1983 and precipitated virtually all minority health care l

Daniel Immerwahr tells how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small scale community based approaches He also sounds a warning such strategies now again in vogue have been tried before alongside grander moderization schemes with often disastrous consequences as self help gave way to crushing local oppression

This Element shows the ecological crisis due to modernity s colonial vision of viewing Earth as natural resources and nonmodern cultures as passive or primitive This led to the belief in intellectual maturity and infinite growth This demands the need for decolonization of history and nature to mitigate humanity s existential threat

From nineteenth century whaling to a multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today venture finance reflects a deep seated tradition in the deployment of risk capital in the United States Tom Nicholas s history of the venture capital industry offers a roller coaster ride through America s ongoing pursuit of financial gain

An award winning historian shows how girls who found self understanding in the natural world became women who changed America

An adventurous dazzling and original history that brings South America s epic past and fascinating present to life Romantic adventurous and thrilling remarkable Telegraph Vivid fast paced and wonderfully ambitious Patria teems with alternative stories of a continent s life and peoples New Internationalist Patria tells an alternative history of South America spanning thousands of miles and five centuries to the present Looking beyond modern borders Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that can t be found on a map vanished realms half imagined utopias and dismembered homelands Blair s journey ranges from ancient Amazonian city states and a rebel Inca dynasty in the jungle via a Brazilian Wakanda that defied slavery Bolivia s landlocked navy and the Patagonian power that defeated the Spanish to fall in with the African freedom fighters who marched over the Andes and the New World Napoleon who led Paraguay to its ruin Groundbreaking recent scholarship striking archaeological discoveries and vivid eyewitness reporting including encounters with drug lords Indigenous leaders refugees and former guerrillas weave a story of survival resistance and revolution restoring South America to the centre of world history An unputdow

Diversos autores reconocidos en el campo de la historia elaboran un relato diverso, incluyente y poli étnico de la historia del pueblo mexicano, sus luchas contra la desigualdad y la injusticia y la obtencion del reconocimiento pleno de sus derechos. La obra abarca desde la etapa precolombina hasta finales del siglo XX, con un enfasis especial en los periodos de la Independencia, la Reforma y la Revolucion. Se trata de un esfuerzo por honrar y reconocer los esfuerzos de todos aquellos mexicanos que lucharon por la justicia, igualdad y libertad de Mexico y cuyo papel muchas veces fue omitido de las narraciones oficiales.