Davis, Edwin Adams and Hogan, William Ransom.
The Barber of Natchez:
(Louisiana UP, 1973).
Paperback. Very good. 278pp. Order No. NSBK-A8204
Keywords: 0807102121, Natchez, barbers, slavery, slaves, free slaves, USA, United States, Black history, negroes, Mississippi, politics, American, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, diaries, diary, letters, biography, biographies, lives, life histories, life history, biographical, business records
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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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Murphy, Mary.
Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914 - 41
(Illinois Press, 1997).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, spine creased, otherwise good+. xviii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A14207
Keywords: 0252065697, Butte, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, leisure, mining, consumerism, twentieth century, social history, consumer culture, copper mines, Montana
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Whitson, Robley Edward, ed.
The Shakers: Two Centuries of Spiritual Reflection
(SPCK, 1983).
Preface by Gertrude M. Soule. Contains the teachings of Ann Lee, Joseph Meacham, John Dunlavy. Paperback. Some shelf wear at edges, otherwise good. xiv + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-A3949
Keywords: 0281040699, spiritual, religion, Shaker, Shakers, Shakerism, Christ, America, American, United States, Ann Lee, Joseph Meacham, John Dunlavy, Shaker Way, theology, Shaker texts
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Palmer, George Herbert.
The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer:
(Houghton Mifflin, 1908).
Hardback. Fly leaf and title pages loose, otherwise a good copy in dark green/black leather binding. 354pp. Order No. NSBK-A9929
Keywords: B000JQOUBK, Alice Freeman Palmer, George Herbert Palmer, American, America, USA, United States, twentieth century, women's history, Alicia, Freeman Palmer, Victorian, nineteenth century, New York, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiography, education, educationalists, teaching, teachers, colleges, Wellseley, lives, life histories, life history
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McMullen, Roy.
Victorian Outsider: A Biography of J.A.M. Whistler
(Macmillan, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in torn, chipped dustwrapper. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A9676
Keywords: 0333141164, art, artists, biography, biographies, biographical, life histories, life history, J. A. M. Whistler, Whistler, painters, paintings, lives, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, USA, United States, Europe, European
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Riley, Glenda.
Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on American Women's History
(Harlan Davidson, rpt., 1987).
Paperback. Small crease to back cover, otherwise very good+. ix + 285pp. Order No. NSBK-C12345
Keywords: 0882958461, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, century, 17thl, 18th, 19th, 20th
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Graham, Andrew with Seldon, Anthony, ed.
Government and Economies in the Postwar World: Economic Policies and Comparative Performance, 1945-85
(Routledge, 1990).
Paperback. Minor annotation, otherwise good. x + 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A8457
Keywords: 0415072883, government, policies, politics, economy, economics, twentieth century, 20th, United Kingdom, Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Soviet union, United States, USA, America, Japan
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Myres, Sandra L.
Ho for California: Women's Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library
(Huntington Library, San Marino, 1980).
Edited and annotated by Sandra L. Meyers. Hardback. Very good (no dustwrapper). xv + 314pp. Order No. NSBK-C12326
Keywords: 0873281039, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, diaries, diary, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, California
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Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
(Bantam, 2007).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A14200
Keywords: 0553804952, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, farms, farming, Iowa, Great Depression, women, women's autobiography, history, 30s, thirties
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