Meriam, Adele Stuart.
The Stepfather in the Family:
(Chicago UP, 1940).
A Social Service Monograph of the University of Chicago. The approach is both sociological and legalistic. Meriam looks at judicial decisions and "sets out the logic and arguments on which those decisions have been based.She brings out clearly the strange dilemma created because of the position of the courts in accordance with the principle that by marriage the stepfather undertakes no obligations to the children of an earlier marriage, as over and against the logic of the older view that when he married a woman a husband took his wife with all of her liabilities." The problem of the stepfather; the stepfather as a stranger; the in loco parentis relationship; liability to support; right of stepfather to his stepchild's earnings; inheritance; right to punish; etc. Paperback. Ex library, covers yellowed, otherwise good+. x + 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A2346
Keywords: B000HBYPWQ, stepfather, step-parent, fatherhood, parenting, law, legal, America, American, American history, USA, United States, family
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Bressey, Caroline.
Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste:
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).
Hardback. Fine. xi + 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C15418
Keywords: 9781780936635, empire, imperialism, colonialism, race, ethnicity, Catherine Impey, British Empire, Quakers, racism, slavery, United States, journalism, anti-racism, racial prejudice, Victorian, 19th century
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Kraditor, Aileen S.
The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920:
(Anchor, rpt, 1971).
Paperback. Cover slightly browned and worn at edges, spine creased,otherwise a good copy. xiii + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-C1474
Keywords: B000K06G0I, suffragettes, suffrage, women, women's suffrage, history, enfranchisement, Votes for Women, women's right, women's movement, woman's suffrage, ideas, ideology, Progressive Era, abolition, abolitionism, abolitionists, American, America, United States, USA, nineteenth century, twentieth century
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Kingston, William H.G.
The Adventures of Dick Onslow: Among the Red Indians
(Gall and Inglis, 1900?).
Hardback. Decorated boards, some foxing internally, otherwise good. vi + 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A13010
Keywords: B000LPZFIG, Dick Onslow, William H. G. Kingston, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors
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Kessel, Marie Adler.
A World of Differences: One Woman's Story
(Arkansas UP, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C2099
Keywords: 155728119X, Marie Adler Kessel, jew, jewish, jewishness, judaism, America, American, United States, American women, American women's history, USA
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Lamont, Thomas W.
My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last Century
(Heinemann, 1945).
Illustrated. Hardback. Bright green cloth, good. xviii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-A2597
Keywords: B000HC0KBU, childhood, autobiography, parsonage, United States, America, Methodism, Catskill Mountains, presidential campaigns
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Blanke, David.
Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the American Mid-West
(Ohio UP, 2000).
Paperback. Good+. xiii + 282pp. Order No. NSBK-A11860
Keywords: 0821413481, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, mid-west, consumers, shops, shopping, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Seagraves, Anne.
High-Spirited Women of the West:
(Wesanne Publications, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-C5883
Keywords: 0961908831, women, woman, women's history, West, western, American, America, United States, USA, feminism, feminists, Belle Starr, Ann Eliza Young, Sarah Winnemucca, Abigail Duniway, Jessie Benton Fremont, suffrage, women's rights, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Fanny Stenhouse, Nellie Cashman, desperadoes, Jeanne Elizabeth Wier, Helen Jane Wiser Stewart, Grace Carpenter Hudson
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Holland, Dorothy C. and Eisenhart, Margaret A.
Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture
(Chicago UP, 1990).
With a foreword by R. W. Connell. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xiii + 273pp. Order No. NSBK-C9325
Keywords: 0226349438, education, women's education, American, America, USA, United States, US, students, universities, university, colleges, black, white, romance, love, gender, sex, academe, academia, race, African-American
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Willard, Frances E.
Glimpses of Fifty Years: the Autobiography of an American Woman
(Source Book Press, rpt, 1970).
Complete, unabridged republication of 1889 Chicago edition. Intro. by Hannah Whitall Smith. Hardback. Slight darkening / light marking to red boards, otherwise very good. xvi + 698pp. Order No. NSBK-C1593
Keywords: B0008C0JOM, Frances Willard, Hannah Whitall Smith, Hannah Smith, America, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, autobiography, history, Chicago, nineteenth century, women's history, women, autobiographies, Women's Christian Temperance Union, WCTU, W.C.T.U
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