James Joyce - Tilly

My impossible health, or the case of James Joyce, catalogue of an exhibition

JAMES JOYCE, My impossible health, or the case of James Joyce, catalogue of an exhibition, London, Royal College of Physicians, 1977, pp. v, 35, [no price stated]. With so much narrow medical specialization it is refreshing to review this catalogue of an exhibition inter-relating aspects of literature, medicine, and history. It tastefully depicts the tribulations of a frustrated Dublin medical ...

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Family Planning Perspectives Through the mid-1980s, Medicaid eligibility requirements included very low income thresholds established by the individual states. Between 1987 and 1991, eligibility standards for poor and near-poor pregnant women were expanded dramatically. The 1986 Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act (OBRA) permitted states to extend eligibility (and receive reimbursement for se...

Joyce the Playwright

Enduring Legacy? Charles Tilly and Durable Inequality

This article assesses Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality and traces its influence. In writing Durable Inequality, Tilly sought to shift the research agenda of stratification scholars. But the book's initial impact was disappointing. In recent years, however, its influence has grown, suggesting a more enduring legacy.

Charles Tilly as a Theorist of Nationalism

This paper considers Charles Tilly as an important but underappreciated theorist of nationalism. Tilly's theory of nationalism emerged from the "bellicist" strand of his earlier work on state-formation and later incorporated a concern with performance, stories, and cultural modeling. Yet despite the turn to culture in Tilly's later work, his theory of nationalism remained state-centered, materi...