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Women'S Identities At War - Gender, Motherhood And Politics In Britain And France During The First World War

by Susan R. Grayzel

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 This study on the triumph of motherhood in Britain and France during World War I argues that throughout the war, traditional notions of masculinity and femininity survived, primarily through the maintenance of soldiering and mothering as the core of gender and national identities.
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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, And Anxious Patriarchs - Gender, Race, And Power In Colonial Virginia

by Kathleen M. Brown

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 The origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender are examined in this book. The author argues that gender was both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, and assesses its role in the construction of racism in Virginia.
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Women Before The Bar - Gender, Law, And Society In Connecticut, 1639-1789

by Cornelia Hughes Dayton

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 This study investigates changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions - including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape and slander. It argues that women had more opportunity to be heard during the Puritan era.
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The Masterless - Self And Society In Modern America

by Wilfred M. Mcclay

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 Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, Wilfred McClay illuminates the historical background to our ongoing search for social connectedness and sources of authority in a society increasingly dominated by the premises of individualism.
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Schooling The New South - Pedagogy, Self, And Society In North Carolina, 1880-1920

by James L. Leloudis

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 An exploration of the wide-ranging social and psychological implications of the transition from old-fashioned common schools to modern graded schools. It argues that this critical change in methods of instruction both reflected and guided the transformation of the American South.
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Passalong Plants

by Felder Rushing

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 Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. In this lively and sometimes irreverent book (don't miss the chapter on yard art), Steve Bender and Felder Rushing describe 117 such plants, giving particulars on hardiness, size, uses in the garden, and horticultural requirements.
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Southern Food - At Home, On The Road, In History

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 Hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1987, John Egerton's Southern Food captures the flavour and feel of what it has meant for southerners, over the generations, to gather at the table. This book is for reading, for cooking, for eating (in and out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying.
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Back Of The Big House - The Architecture Of Plantation Slavery

by John Michael Vlach

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 Behind the â€œBig Housesâ€ of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves' environment. Through photographs and the words of former slaves, he portrays the plantation landscape from the slaves' own point of view.
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Desiring Disability - Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies

by Ellen Samuels e Robert Mcruer

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 Explores how the frameworks for queer theory and disability studies suggest different possibilities for one another, for other identity-based frameworks of activism and scholarship, and for cultural studies in general. This book contains topics including the study of "crip theory" and queer/disabled performance artists.
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Notes On The State Of Virginia

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 Along with his accounts of such factual matters as North American flora and fauna, Thomas Jefferson expounds his views on slavery, education, religious freedom, representative government and the separation of church and the state in this classic - the only full-length book he ever wrote.
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Their Highest Potential - An African American School Community In The Segregated South

by Vanessa Siddle Walker

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 Recounts the history of one African-American school in the segregated American South which succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of the injustices of segregation. The book focuses on the importance of dedicated teachers and the principal and parents.
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Freshwater Fishes Of The Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, And Delaware

by James F. Parnell

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 Encompassing habitats as diverse as alpine forests and subtropical swamps, the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA has a richly diverse fish fauna. This book provides information on how to identify some 260 species of freshwater fish, from the largemouth bass to the rosyside dace.
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Race, Poverty, And American Cities

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 Connections between race, poverty, and the condition of America's cities are drawn together in this collection of 17 essays. The text analyzes the plight of the urban poor in issues such as health care, education, welfare, and housing policies in light of developments over the last 30 years.
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Rising Wind - Black Americans And U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960

by Brenda Gayle Plummer

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 African-Americans have a long history of active involvement and interest in international affairs. This study of 20th-century American history analyzes black Americans' engagement with international issues, from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 to the independence movements of the 1960s.
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Talk About Trouble - A New Deal Portrait Of Virginians In The Great Depression

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 These 61 life histories, recorded between 1938 and 1941, depict Virginian men and women, both blacks and whites, and offer a cross-section of ages, occupations, experiences and cultural and class backgrounds. Notes provide context and introduce people and themes linking events and experiences.
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Restructuring Patriarchy - The Modernization Of Gender Inequality In Brazil, 1914-1940

by Susan K. Besse

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 This volume seeks to demonstrate that the consolidation and legitimization of power by President Getulio Vargas's Estado Novo depended on the reorganization of social relations in the private sphere. New necessities and opportunities for women were created without changing gender inequality.
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The Birth Of Liberal Guilt In The English Novel - Charles Dickens To H. G. Wells

by Daniel Born

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 The author of this study explores the concept of liberal guilt as it first developed in British political and literary culture between the late-Romantic period and World War I. Although it declined in the Edwardian era, the author contends it is a key aspect of the ""liberal imagination"".
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The First American Frontier - Transition To Capitalism In Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860

by Wilma A. Dunaway

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 Dealing with the development of pre-industrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy and drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 and 1860, the author argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region earlier than previously thought.
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Catesby'S Birds Of Colonial America

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 This volume features all 109 bird illustrations, 20 colour plates, and the text from Catesby's ""Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas"". The editor discusses the perception of each species during the colonial period and compares Catesby's observations with those of other naturalists.

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