Alva Myrdal

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Alva Myrdal

Author	: Sissela Bok
File Size	: 55,9 Mb
Publisher	: Basic Books
Language	: English
Release Date	: 21 July 1991
ISBN	: 0201570866
Pages	: 424 pages

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Alva Myrdal by Sissela Bok Book PDF Summary

The daughter of Alva Myrdal offers a portrait of the public triumphs and private difficulties of her mother's influential life. Myrdal was an advocate for women's rights and peace, an ambassador, Swedish cabinet minister and Nobel Prize winner. Her husband, Gunnar, was a noted economist, a Swedish minister and also a Nobel Prize winner.

Alva Myrdal by Sissela Bok

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Alva Myrdal by Yvonne Hirdman

In it, she creates an intimate, impassioned portrait of one of the great women of the 20th century.

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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal by Thomas Etzemüller

Thomas Etzemüller examines the impact of two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal. This study brings to light the roots of modern social engineering, providing insight for today's sociologists, historians, and political scholars.

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Alva Myrdal A Pioneer in Nuclear Disarmament by Peter Wallensteen,Armend Bekaj

This book is about the importance of nuclear disarmament and the work pursued by Alva Myrdal, a pioneering social activist, diplomat, cabinet minister, and disarmament negotiator. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 together with Alfonso García Robles "for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones".

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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America 1898 1945 by Walter A. Jackson

Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes the connections between the public and private

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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont by Sylvia D. Hoffert

A fascinating biography of the New York socialite who played a surprising role in the fight for suffrage. Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. She married two millionaires, and pressured her daughter to wed an aristocrat. This

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Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy by Galen Brokaw,Jongsoo Lee

Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy provides a much-needed overview of the life, work, and contribution of an important seventeenth-century historian. The volume explores the complexities of Alva Ixtlilxochitl's life and works, revising and broadening our understanding of his racial and cultural identity and his contribution to Mexican history.

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The Legacy of Rulership in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl s Historia de la naci n chichimeca by Leisa A. Kauffmann

In this book Leisa A. Kauffmann takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the writings of one of Mexico’s early chroniclers, Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl, a bilingual seventeenth-century historian from Central Mexico. His writing, especially his portrayal of the great pre-Hispanic poet-king Nezahualcoyotl, influenced other canonical histories of Mexico and

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