Abramovitz, Mimi.
Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
(South End Press, 1989).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. x + 406pp. Order No. NSBK-C13061
Keywords: 9780896083295, social welfare policy,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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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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Beik, Mildred Allen.
The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization
(Pennsylvania University Press, 1996).
Paperback. Near fine. xxx + 447pp. Order No. NSBK-A10290
Keywords: 0271015675, immigrants, immigration, America, American, USA, US, United States, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, unionization, unionisation, Pennsylvania, Windber, miners, mining, coal, coalminers, coalmining, Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, New Deal, United Mine Workers, ethnicity, ethnic
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Clarke, Fred.
John Quincy Adams:
(Collier Books, 1966).
A closeup of American government in action and of the man who pioneered many of its greatest achievements. Hardback. Good in torn and slightly soiled dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A13957
Keywords: B0000CN9KW, John Quincy Adams, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Presidents, politics, political, politicians, government
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Keetley, Dawn and Pettegrew, John.
Public Women, Public Worlds: A Documentary History of American Feminism
(Madison House, 1997).
Volume 1: Beginnings to 1900. Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xxi + 377pp. Order No. NSBK-C8526
Keywords: 0945612443, American, America, USA, United States, feminism, feminists, nineteenth century, Salem, Victorian, 19th, texts, speeches, novels, poetry, poems, fiction, broadsides, testimonies, transcripts, trials, journals, newspapers, magazines
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George, Susanne K.
Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works
(Nebraska UP, 1997).
Late nineteenth-century Nebraska author who placed special emphasis on the experiences of women. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xiii + 250pp. Order No. NSBK-C1623
Keywords: 0803221649, biography, Kate Cleary, literature, American women, America, American, USA, United States, women's history, American women's history
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Hoffert, Sylvia D.
When Hens Crow: the Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America
(Indiana UP, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 153pp. Order No. NSBK-C2439
Keywords: 0253328802, America, American, American women, women's rights, Antebellum America, American women's history, United States, USA
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Hardwick, J. M. D.
Emigrant in Motley: The Journey of Charles and Ellen Kean in Quest of a Theatrical Fortune in Australia and America, as Told in Their Hitherto Unpublished Letters
(Rockcliff, 1954).
Hardback. Cloth faded and marked (slightly grubby), internally good. 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A3912
Keywords: B0000CJ0TP, Charles Kean, Ellen Kean, letters, stage, theatre, drama, theatrical, actress, actor, America, United States, Australia, emigration, emigrant, Victorian, nineteenth century, history
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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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White, Kevin.
The First Sexual Revolution: The Emergence of Male HeteroSexuality in Modern America
(New York UP, 1993).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-A13136
Keywords: 0814792588, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, sexuality, homosexuality, gay history, New Man, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, masculinity, men, male
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