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The Beauty Myth

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The Great Powers And Global Struggle, 1490-1990

de Karen A. Rasler e William R. Thompson

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 Focuses on two themes: the rise and fall as well as the relative decline of major world powers over the past five hundred years, and the way in which these processes have set the stage for the outbreak of global war. This interdisciplinary approach encompasses political science, economics, sociology, geography, and history.
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Graham Greene - A Descriptive Catalog

de Robert H. Miller

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 English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and journalist, Graham Greene was one of the most widely read novelist of the 20th-century, a superb storyteller. Graham Greene is a descriptive catalog of first editions of works by Greene, which are currently held in the collection of the University of Louisville.
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Golden Cables Of Sympathy - The Transatlantic Sources Of Nineteenth-Century Feminism

de Margaret H. Mcfadden

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 In a remarkable display of investigative research, Margaret McFadden describes the burgeoning avenues of communication in the nineteenth century that led to an explosion in the number of international contacts among women. Particular attention is paid to five women whose decades of work helped give birth to the women's movement by century's end.
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Funeral Festivals In America - Rituals For The Living

de Jacqueline S. Thursby

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 When Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how extraordinarily creative and technical human funerary practices would become. Jacqueline S. Thursby explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals seem meant to benefit the living rather than the dead. Funeral Festivals in America suggests that there is an irony in the festivities surrounding death and that the American response to death often develops into an event celebrating the ties between family members and friends. Thursby cites rituals for loved ones separated at the time of death, the frivolities surrounding death, funeral foods and feasts, post-funeral rites and ongoing commemorations, and many other facets of the American way of dealing with death.
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From My Old Kentucky Home To The White House - The Political Journey Of Catherine Conner

de Catherine Conner

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 This lively memoir recounts the story of a determined woman who led a remarkable life in the highest circles of power in both state and national politics. Catherine Conner would become the youngest National Democratic Committeewoman and would subsequently serve in FDR's inner circle.
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Freedom At Risk - The Kidnapping Of Free Blacks In America, 1780-1865

de Carol Wilson

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 Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Most kidnapped free blacks were forcibly abducted, but other methods, such as luring victims with job offers or falsely claiming free people as fugitive slaves, were used as well.
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For Honor, Glory, And Union - The Mexican And Civil War Letters Of Brig. Gen. William Haines Lytle

de William Haines Lytle

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 Presents the letters of Lytle, a Union brigadier general with strong Southern ties who was killed at Chickamauga, edited by the curator of Historical Collections for the University of Pittsburgh Library System. The letters compiled here offer a witty, bright look at the workings of the Union army, as well as Lytles relations with his family and friends.
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Food And Everyday Life On Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950

de Anne Van Willigen e John Van Willigen

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 Based on interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Family Farm Project and supplemented by archival research, photographs, and recipes, Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920--1950 recalls a vanishing way of life in rural Kentucky. Focusing on the family farm in the first half of the twentieth century, John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen illuminate how the revolutionary change from subsistence to market-based agricultural production that was prompted by economic stress and government policy altered not only the production, preparation, and consumption of food in Kentucky, but the social relations within the state's rural communities.
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Erin'S Heirs - Irish Bonds Of Community

de Dennis Clark

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 "They will melt like snowflakes in the sun"", said one observer of nineteenth-century Irish emigrants to America. Not only did they not melt, they formed one of the most extensive and persistent ethnic subcultures in American history. Dennis Clark offers an insightful analysis of the social means this group has used to perpetuate its distinctiveness amid the complexity of American urban life.
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Entangled By White Supremacy - Reform In World War I-Era South Carolina

de Janet G. Hudson

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 In Entangled by White Supremacy: Reform in World War I-era South Carolina, Janet G. Hudson analyzes World War I-era South Carolina, a state whose white minority maintained political power by rigidly enforcing white supremacy over its African American majority. Considering the aspirations and actions of both black and white reformers, Hudson looks at African American activism, the vigor of white reformers, and the influence of a multifaceted ideology of white supremacy that became a barrier to the region's progress. Detailing African American resistance to white supremacy long before the traditional Civil Rights era, the book illuminates the critical nature of South Carolina to the civil rights movement and to the later demise of Progressivism.
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Divided Counsel - The Anglo-American Response To Communist Victory In China

de Edwin W. Martin

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 In the long controversy over the failure of the United States to extend early recognition to the People's Republic of China, the story of American efforts to maintain an official presence in the Communist-controlled areas of China until 1950 has been largely neglected.
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Diary Of A Disaster - British Aid To Greece, 1940-1941

de Robin Higham

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 On October 28, 1940, the Italian army under Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. In Diary of a Disaster, Robin Higham details the unfolding events from the invasion, though the Italian defeat and the subsequent German invasion, until the British evacuation at the end of April 1941.
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Demon-Lovers And Their Victims In British Fiction

de Toni Reed

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 Xiaobing Li's comprehensive examination of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) offers new insights into the military's central place in modern Chinese society. A History of the Modern Chinese Army goes beyond the usual Western assessments of the Chinese mi
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Dear Alben - Mr. Barkley Of Kentucky

de James K. Libbey

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 Traces Kentucky civil servant Alben Barkley's life from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the seats of power in the nation's capital. Barkley is revealed as a Wilsonian liberal before he became an apostle of the New Deal. James K. Libbey brings into clear focus the role of a forceful Kentuckian in national politics in two eras of rapid change and reform.
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David Wendel Yandell - Physician Of Old Louisville

de Nancy Disher Baird

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 David Wendel Yandell was the most distinguished physician of a family noted for its contributions to the medical profession over a period of generations. David Wendel Yandell is an illuminating and well-rounded picture of the strengths and weaknesses of nineteenth-century medicine and of the practitioner, teacher, and leader who shaped the modern medical profession in Kentucky and the nation.
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A Darkness At Dawn - Appalachian Kentucky And The Future

de Harry M. Caudill

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 Outspoken Appalachian writer Harry M. Caudill analyzes the exploitation and decline of the eastern Kentucky mountain lands, which have rendered "no people in the nation...more forlorn than the Appalachian highlanders in our time." Frontier attitudes, a strong attachment to the land, and isolation have produced in Appalachia a backwoods culture which made its people susceptible to an outside exploitation of their resources that has perpetrated on them a passive society largely dependant on relief.But the times, says Mr. Caudill, are changing. A growing world population and global industrialization have created a drastically altered situation in eastern Kentucky. The area's resources of energy are essential to the progress and well-being not only of the nation but also of the world; and the world is prepared to court the favor of the people who control these resources and is prepared to pay the price demanded by those owners. Mr. Caudill makes an eloquent plea for Kentuckians to reclaim the resources that lie in their mountains and to demand their fair share of the wealth generated by those resources. If they are willing to do this, the state and especially the people in eastern Kentucky can have a bright and prosperous future. But they can delay no longer. They must break the mold of passivity and take destiny into their own hands.An attorney in Whitesburg, Kentucky, Harry M. Caudill is the author of such well-known books as "Night Comes to the Cumberlands," "Dark Hills to Westward," and "My Land is Dying."The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf is a celebration of two centuries of the history and culture of the Commonwealth.
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Dark Prisms - Occultism In Hispanic Drama

de Robert Lima

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 The mythological, folkloric, and religious beliefs of Western culture have resulted in a long and ongoing history of esoteric themes in theatre from the Middle Ages to the present in Spain and the America. Now Robert Lima, a noted comparatist, brings to bear on this material his wide knowledge of the world of the occult.
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Crusaders Against Opium - Protestant Missionaries In China, 1874-1917

de Kathleen L. Lodwick

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Crossfire - Philosophy And The Novel In Spain, 1900-1934

de Roberta Johnson

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 Current narratological theories, including those of Todorov, Genette, Bakhtin, and Martinez Bonati, assist in teasing out the intertextual maneuvers and philosophical conflicts embedded in the novels of the period, while the sociological and biographical material bridges the philosophical and literary analyses.
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The County In Kentucky History

de Robert M. Ireland

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 In the nineteenth century, Kentucky was one of the nation's leading producers of racehorses, whiskey, tobacco -- and new counties.
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Consuming Pleasures - Active Audiences And Serial Fictions From Dickens To Soap Opera

de Jennifer Hayward

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 Ever since the 1830s, when Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers enticed a mass market for fiction, the serial has been a popular means of snaring avid audiences. Jennifer Hayward establishes serial fiction as a distinct genre - one defined by the activities of its audience rather than by the formal qualities of the text.
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A Coat Of Many Colors - Religion And Society Along The Cape Fear River Of North Carolina

de Walter H. Conser

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 While religious diversity is often considered a relatively recent phenomenon in America, the Cape Fear region of North Carolina has been a diverse community since the area was first settled. The Cape Fear River and the port city of Wilmington were more urban than the rest of the state; thus the region provided people with opportunities seldom found in other parts of North Carolina. These opportunities drew residents from many ethnic backgrounds, and the residents brought their religious traditions with them. In A Coat of Many Colors, Walter H. Conser Jr. explores how religious and racial diversity in the Cape Fear region have functioned as a microcosm for the South and examines the ways in which religion can affect such diverse aspects of life as architecture and race relations.
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Cities In The Commonwealth - Two Centuries Of Urban Life In Kentucky

de Allen J. Share

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 From the 1780s, when Louisville and Lexington were tiny clusters of houses in the wilderness, to the 1980s, when more than half of all Kentuckians live in urban areas, the growth of cities has affected nearly all aspects of life in the Commonwealth.
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