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John Freeman, 1969–71 (2009)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2009). John Freeman, 1969–71. In M. F. Hopkins, S. Kelly, & J. W. Young (Eds.), The Washington Embassy: British Ambassadors to the United States, 1939–77 (169-188). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234543_10

At less than two years duration, the ambassadorship of John Freeman was the second shortest covered by this book. It took place, too, in a singularly uneventful period in Anglo-American relations, between the dramas of 1967–68 — when the devaluation... Read More about John Freeman, 1969–71.

What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa (2009)
Journal Article
Crozier, A. (2009). What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64(4), 518-548. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrp017

During the first quarter of the twentieth century, tropical neurasthenia was a popular diagnosis for a nervous condition experienced by Europeans in the topics. Tropical neurasthenia was not psychosis or madness, but was rather an ennui or loss of “e... Read More about What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa.