Michael Burlingame;Michael Burlingame
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This award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.Nam...
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2008; Vol. 00001
This award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln .Named One of the 5 Best Books of 2009 by The AtlanticNamed One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago Tribune Winner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S. History and Biography/Autobiography, Association of American PublishersWinner, 2010 Lincoln Prize from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg CollegeIn the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's presidency and the trials of the Civil War. He supplies fascinating details on the crisis over Fort Sumter and the relentless office seekers who plagued Lincoln . He introduces readers to the president's battles with hostile newspaper editors and his quarrels with incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also interprets Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of his son Willie to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over the enormous human costs of the war.
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Presidents--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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E. Lawrence Abel;E. Lawrence Abel
Born into a Sephardic Jewish immigrant family, Dr. Issachar Zacharie was the preeminen...
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2020
Born into a Sephardic Jewish immigrant family, Dr. Issachar Zacharie was the preeminent foot doctor for the American political elite before and during the Civil War. An expert in pain management, Zacharie treated the likes of Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, General George McClelland and most notably, President Abraham Lincoln . As Zacharie's professional and personal relationship with Lincoln deepened, the President began to entrust the doctor with political missions. Throughout Lincoln's presidency, Zacharie traveled to southern cities like New Orleans and Richmond in efforts to ally with some of the Confederacy's most influential Jewish citizens. This biography explores Dr. Zacharie's life, from his birth in Chatham, England, through his medical practice, espionage career and eventual political campaigning for President Lincoln .
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Spies--United States--Biography - Jews--United States--Biography - Podiatrists--United States--Biography - British Americans--Biography - Eccentrics and eccentricities--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Ferenc Morton Szasz;Ferenc Morton Szasz
Today the images of Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln are recognized worldwide, yet few...
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2008
Today the images of Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln are recognized worldwide, yet few are aware of the connection between the two. In Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends, author Ferenc Morton Szasz reveals how famed Scots poet Robert Burns—and Scotland in general—influenced the life and thought of one of the most beloved and important U.S. presidents and how the legends of the two men became intertwined after their deaths. This is the first extensive work to link the influence, philosophy, and artistry of these two larger-than-life figures. Lacking a major national poet of their own in the early nineteenth century, Americans in the fledgling frontier country ardently adopted the poignant verses and songs of Scotland's Robert Burns. Lincoln , too, was fascinated by Scotland's favorite son and enthusiastically quoted the Scottish bard from his teenage years to the end of his life. Szasz explores the ways in which Burns's portrayal of the foibles of human nature, his scorn for religious hypocrisy, his plea for nonjudgmental tolerance, and his commitment to social equality helped shape Lincoln's own philosophy of life. The volume also traces how Burns's lyrics helped Lincoln develop his own powerful sense of oratorical rhythm, from his casual anecdotal stories to his major state addresses. Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns connects the poor-farm-boy upbringings, the quasi-deistic religious views, the shared senses of destiny, the extraordinary gifts for words, and the quests for social equality of two respected and beloved world figures. This book is enhanced by twelve illustrations and two appendixes, which include Burns poems Lincoln particularly admired and Lincoln writings especially admired in Scotland.
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Poets, Scottish--18th century--Biography - Presidents--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Avenging Lincoln ’s Death : The Trial of John Wilkes Booth’s Accomplices
Thomas J. Reed;Thomas J. Reed
Avenging Lincoln's Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth's Accomplices is an examinati...
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Avenging Lincoln ’s Death : The Trial of John Wilkes Booth’s Accomplices
2016
Avenging Lincoln's Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth's Accomplices is an examination of the 1865 military commission trial of eight alleged accomplices of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin who murdered President Abraham Lincoln . The book analyzes the trial transcript and other relevant evidence relating to the guilt of Booth's alleged accomplices, as well as a careful application of basic constitutional law principles to the jurisdiction of the military commission and the fundamental fairness of the trial. The author found that the military commission trial was unconstitutional and unfair because Congress never authorized trial by military commission for these eight civilians. President Johnson exceeded the scope of his authority as commander in chief by ordering the accomplices to be tried by military commission. He failed to follow the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863 that required him to turn over the alleged accomplices to civilian authorities for prosecution. The accomplices were convicted on perjured testimony and the Government was allowed to drag in unrelated evidence of Confederate atrocities to poison the minds of the panel of officers.
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Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial, WashingtonContent provider:
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Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein;Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein
The life of America's sixteenth president has continued to fascinate the public since ...
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2012
The life of America's sixteenth president has continued to fascinate the public since his tragic death. Now, Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein unveils an engaging volume on the medical history of the Lincoln family. Lincoln and Medicine,the first work on the subject in nearly eighty years, investigates the most enduring controversies about Lincoln's mental health, physical history, and assassination; the conditions that afflicted his wife and children, both before and after his death; and Lincoln's relationship with the medical field during the Civil War, both as commander-in-chief and on a personal level. Since his assassination in 1865, Lincoln has been diagnosed with no less than seventeen conditions by doctors, historians, and researchers, including congestive heart failure, epilepsy, Marfan syndrome, and mercury poisoning. Schroeder-Lein offers objective scrutiny of the numerous speculations and medical mysteries that continue to be associated with the president's physical and mental health, from the recent interest in testing Lincoln's DNA and theories that he was homosexual, to analysis of the deep depressions, accidents, and illnesses that plagued his early years. Set within the broader context of the prevailing medical knowledge and remedies of the era, Lincoln and Medicine takes into account new perspectives on the medical history of Abraham Lincoln and his family, offering an absorbing and informative view into a much-mythologized, yet underinvestigated, dimension of one of the nation's most famous leaders. Best of the Best by the Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2013
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Politics, Practical - Families--Health and hygiene - Celebrities - Medical care - Health - Social sciences - Demography - Humanities - Public health - HistoryContent provider:
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Science Fiction Short Story Writers
Salem Press;Salem Press
Science Fiction Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that was carefully se...
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Science Fiction Short Story Writers
2017
Science Fiction Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Science Fiction Short Story Writeres discuss such influential authors as Robert Heinlen, Orson Scott Card, H. G. Wells, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Authors--Biography--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Science fiction--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Short story--Handbooks, manuals, etcContent provider:
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Essays on Cultural Traditions in the Short Story
Salem Press;Salem Press
Essays on Cultural Traditions in the Short Story is a single-volume reference that con...
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Essays on Cultural Traditions in the Short Story
2017
Essays on Cultural Traditions in the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume include such topics as African Short Fiction, German Short Fiction, Latino Short Fiction, and Native American Short Fiction.
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Short story--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Fiction--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etcContent provider:
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McKirdy, Charles R.;McKirdy, Charles R.
'In 1847, in a small rural courthouse in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln repre...
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2011
'In 1847, in a small rural courthouse in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln represented a Kentucky slave owner named Robert Matson in his attempt to recover a runaway slave woman and her four children. Most Americans, even those with a penchant for the nation's history, have never heard of this court case. This is no coincidence. Lincoln's involvement in the case has troubled and bewildered most students and biographers of the''Great Emancipator.''In many assessments, the case inspires rationalizations and distortions; in others, avoidance and denial. These approaches are a disservice to the man and to those who seek to understand him.In Lincoln Apostate: The Matson Slave Case, lawyer and historian Charles R. McKirdy digs behind the myths and evasions to determine why Lincoln chose to advocate property rights grounded in a system that he claimed to abhor and pursue the continued enslavement of five of its most vulnerable and sympathetic victims. In a careful and readable blend of narrative and analysis, the book finds the answer in the time and place that was Lincoln's Illinois in 1847, in the laws and judicial decisions that provided the legal backdrop against which the drama of the Matson case was played out, and in the man that Lincoln was thirteen years before he became president.The discussion of Lincoln's decision to represent Matson and the description of the trial itself take nothing at face value. The author examines primary and secondary sources for the ribbon of truth shorn of preconceptions and hollow justifications. Lincoln Apostate scrutinizes Lincoln's motives for choosing as he did and explores the ideals and fears of this very complex man.'
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Slavery--Illinois--Coles County--Legal status of slaves in free states--Cases - Habeas corpus--Illinois--Coles County--CasesContent provider:
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The Story of Alice : Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst;Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tang...
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The Story of Alice : Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
2015
Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories , and analyzes how this relationship stirred Carroll's imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. It also explains why Alice in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era and why, a century and a half later, they continue to enthrall and delight readers of all ages.The Story of Alice reveals Carroll as both an innovator and a stodgy traditionalist, entrenched in habits and routines. He had a keen double interest in keeping things moving and keeping them just as they are. (In Looking-Glass Land, Alice must run faster and faster just to stay in one place.) Tracing the development of the Alice books from their inception in 1862 to Liddell's death in 1934, Douglas-Fairhurst also provides a keyhole through which to observe a larger, shifting cultural landscape: the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood, murky questions about sex and sexuality, and the relationship between Carroll's books and other works of Victorian literature.In the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era, Douglas-Fairhurst shows, Wonderland became a sheltered world apart, where the line between the actual and the possible was continually blurred.
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Authors, English--19th century--BiographyContent provider:
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Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
David Atkinson;Steve Roud;David Atkinson;Steve Roud
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteent...
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Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
2023
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children's literature, and social history.
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Printers--Great Britain--History--18th century - English literature--18th century--History and criticism - Street literature--Great Britain--History and criticismContent provider:
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Renaissance Futurities : Science, Art, Invention
Charlene Villaseñor Black;Mari-Tere Álvarez;Charlene Villaseñor Black;Mari-...
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Lumi...
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Renaissance Futurities : Science, Art, Invention
2019
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari -Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio “Delminio” Camillo (1480–1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514–1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression.
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Art and science--Europe--16th century - Art and science--Forecasting - Art and science--Europe--15th centuryContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
Mary Ellen Snodgrass;Mary Ellen Snodgrass
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of to...
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Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
2019
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of tobacco, and sea salt blocks. As art and technology advanced, monetary systems and currencies altered. Today, coins and currency provide an historical and archeological record of culture, religion, politics, and world leaders. This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts. It begins with the origin of coins in ancient Sumer, and follows advancements in metallurgy and minting machines to paper, plastic, and electronic moneys designed to ease trade and halt counterfeiting and other forms of theft. A timeline of monetary history is provided along with a glossary and bibliography. Numerous photographs of coins and bills provide an up-close look at beautiful and ingenious artifacts.
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Money--History--Encyclopedias - Coins--History--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Committed : Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions
Susan Burch;Susan Burch
Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from...
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Committed : Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions
2021
Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story . For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylum, the tenacity of relationships extended within and beyond institutional walls. In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people—families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day—who have experienced the impact of this history.
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Inmates of institutions--United States--Biography - Indians of North America--United States--Biography - Indians, Treatment of--North America - Indians of North America--Government relations--1869-1934Content provider:
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Susan Goodman;Carl Dawson;Susan Goodman;Carl Dawson
Mary Austin (1868-1934)—eccentric, independent, and unstoppable—was twenty years old w...
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2008
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Women and literature--West (U.S.)--History--20th century - Authors, American--20th century--Biography - Western stories--History and criticismContent provider:
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We the People? : The United States and the Question of Rights
Irina Brittner;Sabine N. Meyer;Peter Schneck;Irina Brittner;Sabine N. Meyer...
The foundational vision of the U.S. polity as a “political edifice of liberty and equa...
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We the People? : The United States and the Question of Rights
2020; Vol. 00309
The foundational vision of the U.S. polity as a “political edifice of liberty and equal rights” (Abraham Lincoln ) has held immense symbolic power and bred both aspirations and discontent. It has served as the source for various interconnected, yet often also conflicting, narratives and discourses through which the question of human and civil rights in the U.S. has been constantly debated and re-negotiated. This volume investigates the U.S.-American culture of rights as it has evolved and continues to evolve throughout U.S. (legal) history as well as in U.S. literature and in popular culture. It demonstrates that the question of rights has been posed differently by members of the various groups and cultures that have historically constituted the United States, and that the answers to these questions changed significantly over time.
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Human rights in mass media - Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States - Human rights in literature - Human rights--United States - Civil rights--United StatesContent provider:
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William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” : A Life
William F. Halloran;William F. Halloran
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of h...
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William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” : A Life
2022
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. A Scottish poet, novelist, biographer, and editor, he began in 1893 to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod who became far more than a pseudonym. Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but remote and publicity-shy woman. Sometimes she was his cousin and other times his lover, and whenever suspicions arose, he vehemently denied he was Fiona. For more than a decade he duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, and E. C. Stedman. Drawing extensively on his letters, his wife Elizabeth Sharp's Memoir, and accounts by friends and associates, this biography provides a lucid and intimate account of William Sharp's life, from his rejection of the dour religion of his Scottish boyhood, his turn to spiritualism, to his role in the Scottish Celtic Revival in the mid-nineties. The biography illuminates his wide network of close male and female friendships, through which he developed advanced ideas about the place of women in society, the constraints of marriage, the fluidity of gender identity, and the complexity of the human psyche. Uniquely this biography reveals the autobiographical content of the writings of Fiona Macleod, the remarkable extent to which Sharp used the feminine pseudonym to disguise his telling and retelling the complex story of his extramarital love affair with a beautiful and brilliant woman. The biography illuminates not only the talented and conflicted William Sharp, but also the cultural landscape of Great Britain in the late-nineteenth century. From late Pre-Raphaelitism through the'yellow nineties” and on to the excesses of the early twentieth century, Sharp dabbled in all the movements that comprised what some have called the Age of Decadence.
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The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present
Veronique Pouillard;Vincent Dubé-Senécal;Veronique Pouillard;Vincent Dubé-S...
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nine...
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The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present
2024
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers'revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from the beginning and, as such, this volume looks at the history of fashion and dress through the lenses of both international and global history. Because fashion is also a multifaceted subject with humanagency at its core, at the confluence of thematerial (fabrics, clothing, dyes, tools, and machines) and the immaterial (savoir-faire, identities, images, and brands), this volume adopts a transdisciplinary perspective, opening its pages to researchers from a variety of complementary fields. The chapters in this volume are organized based on their relationship to five fields of study: economics and commerce, politics, business, identities, and historical sources. Paying particular attention to change, the book goes beyond the great fashion capitals and well-known fashion centers and points to the broader geographies of fashion. Particular geographical areas focus on the emergence of new fashion systems and business models, whether they be in Sweden, Bangladesh, or Spain, or on the African continent, considered to be the “new frontier” of the industry. Covering myriad aspects of the subject this is the perfect companion for all those interested in history of dress and fashion in the modern world.
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Fashion--History - Clothing and dress--HistoryContent provider:
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The Short Story
March-Russell, Paul;March-Russell, Paul
This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an under...
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The Short Story
2009
This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction. In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics. Europe
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Novelle - Short storyContent provider:
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Power in Numbers : The Rebel Women of Mathematics
Talithia Williams;Talithia Williams
From rocket scientists to code breakers, discover the incredibly inspiring stories of ...
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Power in Numbers : The Rebel Women of Mathematics
2018
From rocket scientists to code breakers, discover the incredibly inspiring stories of more than 30 women who fought through the obstacles, shattered the stereotypes, and embraced their STEM passions. Prepare to be inspired. With more than 200 photos and original interviews with several of the amazing women covered, Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics is a full-color volume that takes aim at the forgotten influence of women on the development of mathematics over the last two millennia.Each biography reveals the amazing life of a different female mathematician, from her childhood and early influences, to the obstacles she faced and the great achievements she made in spite of them. Learn how: After her father terminated her math lessons, Sofia Kovalevskaya snuck algebra books into her bed to read at night.Emmy Noether became an invaluable resource to Albert Einstein while she was in the Navy.Native American rocket scientist Mary Golda Ross developed designs for fighter jets and missiles in a top-secret unit.Katherine Johnson's life-or-death calculations at NASA meant that astronauts such as Alan Shepard and John Glenn made it home alive.Shakuntala Devi multiplied massive numbers in her head so her family could eat at night.Pamela Harris proved her school counselors wrong when they told her she would only succeed as a bilinguial secretary.Carla Cotwright-Williams began her life in the dangerous streets of South-Central Los Angeles before skyrocketing to a powerful career with the Department of Defense in Washington DC. One thing uniting these women's stories is that at some point on their journeys, someone believed in them; someone made them think the impossible was perhaps not so impossible.May their stories empower the next generation of STEM rebels to continue advancing mathematical theory, bringing awareness to the field, and increasing our Power in Numbers.
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Women mathematicians--BiographyContent provider:
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Poor Man's Fortune : White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950
Jarod Roll;Jarod Roll
White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, par...
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Poor Man's Fortune : White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950
2020
White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story , excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal. With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners'choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege.
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White nationalism - Working class white people--Attitudes - Miners--Tri-State Mining District--History--20th century - Miners--Tri-State Mining District--History--19th century - Masculinity--Economic aspects - Conservatism--Tri-State Mining District--History - Working class men--AttitudesContent provider:
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991–1995 (A–Z)
Melanie Nolan;Melanie Nolan
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies...
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991–1995 (A–Z)
2021; Vol. 00019
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians.The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects.The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender,'the first Australian celebrity to go public'about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991.The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953.Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government's campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage.Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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In the Shadow of Billy the Kid : Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War
Kathleen P. Chamberlain;Kathleen P. Chamberlain
The events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln ...
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In the Shadow of Billy the Kid : Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War
2013
The events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County War and catapulted Susan McSween and a young cowboy named Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, into the history books. The so-called war, a fight for control of the mercantile economy of southeastern New Mexico, is one of the most documented conflicts in the history of the American West, but it is an event that up to now has been interpreted through the eyes of men. As a woman in a man's story , Susan McSween has been all but ignored. This is the first book to place her in a larger context. Clearly, the Lincoln County War was not her finest hour, just her best known. For decades afterward, she ran a successful cattle ranch. She watched New Mexico modernize and become a state. And she lived to tell the tales of the anarchistic territorial period many times.
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Women--New Mexico--Lincoln County--BiographyContent provider:
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Africa and Urban Anthropology : Theoretical and Methodological Contributions From Contemporary Fieldwork
Deborah Pellow;Suzanne Scheld;Deborah Pellow;Suzanne Scheld
This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a rang...
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Africa and Urban Anthropology : Theoretical and Methodological Contributions From Contemporary Fieldwork
2023
This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition of an African city, town, or urban space, and to current concepts for thinking about African cities in the twenty-first century. The contributors examine topics including notions of belonging, the effects of globalization, colonialism, and transnationalism on African urban life, the cultural dimensions of infrastructure and public resources, mobility, labor issues, spatial organization, language, and popular culture trends, among other themes. The book reflects on how the ethnography of urban Africa fits within anthropology and urban studies, and on new theoretical concepts and methodologies that can be created through anthropological fieldwork in African cities. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students from anthropology, African studies and urban studies, as well as sociology and geography.
