INTRODUCTION

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. 1. The Nightingale Imperative 9
6. 2. Navigating the Political Straits in the Crimean War 28
7. 3. The Dream of Nursing the Empire 55
8. 4. Rhetoric and Reality in America 76
9. 5. Mythologizing and De-mythologizing 91
10. 6. The Passionate Statistician 115
11. 7. An Icon and Iconoclast for Today 130
12. Notes 143
13. Contributors 161
14. Index 165