Nadja Durbach

World History

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Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Nadja Durbach, Degrees: 2001 PhD Johns Hopkins University, 1996 MA Johns Hopkins University, 1993 BA (Hons) University of British Columbia, Selected Publications: Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (Book), 2009, Bodily Matters: The Anti Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 (Book), 2005, "London, Capital of Exotic Exhibitions From 1830 to 1860" (Book Section), 2008, "The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle: Krao and the Victorian Discourses of Evolution, Imperialism, and Primitive Sexuality” (Book Section), 2008, “Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Re-Examining ‘the Elephant Man’” (Journal Article), 2008, “Class, Gender, and the Conscientious Objector to Vaccination, 1898-1907” (Journal Article), 2002, "'They Might as Well Brand Us': Working-Class Resistance to Compulsory Vaccination in Victorian England" (Journal Article), 2000.

Bodily Matters

December 04, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172242.Bodily_Matters Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 by Nadja Durbach, Daniel J. Walkowitz (Editor) Bodily Matters explores…

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