Patrice Chaplin: City of Secrets (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2007, 336pp.)
A book review by Rene Wadlow
Patrice Chaplin is a writer of books and films, and her presentation of the hidden aspects of Gerona, an old Catalan city near Barcelona, has all the characteristics of a film script: short chapters, lively dialogue, and memorable scenes where the action takes place. Catalonia is divided between Spain and France, but there is a cultural unity to Catalan culture, and people have passed across the State frontiers when political events created the need: Spanish Republicans as the Civil War ended in 1939 moved into France; refugees from France and beyond crossed into Spain in the early 1940s as Nazi armies advanced; and anti-Franco activists moved back and forth to France in the 1950s. read more »
Richard Power, Editor, Wheaton, IL
When international development efforts began in the late 1940s sparked by President Truman’s “Point Four” program of technical assistance, the general image of the world’s poor were the villages of India, China, Africa, and Latin America. Many development activities were linked to increased rice and wheat crops. Irrigation and better water use were issues high on the development agenda. Awareness of the growth of cities has been slow.
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