A Brief History of Florence Nightingale
and Her Real Legacy, a Revolution in Public Health
$20.65
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2017
Summary
Praise for Small’s earlier work on Nightingale: ‘Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians and biographers have missed … This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very eminent (and complex) Victorian.’ — James Le Fanu, Daily Telegraph
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is best known as a reformer of hospital nursing during and after the Crimean War, but many feel that her nursing …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472140289 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472140281 |
| Author: | Mr Hugh Small |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 158mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Brief Histories |
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Critics Review
A masterly piece of historical detective work - Daily Telegraph
Small comes at his subject from a novel and startlingly illuminating perspective. Far from debunking this great Victorian icon, however, his portrait liberates a formidable woman from dreamy angelhood, underlining her tragic heroism instead. - The ScotsmanSmall’s Nightingale is driven, tormented, messianic and interesting. - New York TimesAbout The Author
Mr Hugh Small
Hugh Small is a social historian and political economist with a long previous career in industry after graduating from Durham University with honours in physics and psychology.
From 1976 to 1981 Hugh Small was the principal network architect for the world’s first commercial internet, the SITA multi-airline reservations network. From 1983 to 1998 he was a partner in two US strategic management consulting firms, Arthur D. Little and A.T. Kearney.
In 1998 he changed career and began to research social reform in Victorian Britain. His historical publications include Florence Nightingale, Avenging Angel (Constable, 1998) and The Crimean War (Tempus Publishing, 2007). His final revised biography of Florence Nightingale will be published in the summer of 2017 by Robinson, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group. It reveals new evidence that Nightingale implemented the sanitation revolution which academics now agree was the cause of the astonishing increase in national life expectancy which began in the 1870s. This activity had nothing to do with the hospital nursing reforms with which Nightingale has been traditionally associated.
Hugh Small is a widower with two daughters and five grandchildren.
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