Kennedy, William Sloane.
John G. Whittier: the Poet of Freedom
(Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1892).
Hardback. Internal splitting at spine (front & back), spine faded & spine ends worn, otherwise good, firm. iv + 330pp. Order No. NSBK-A3812
Keywords: B00085DF2W, John G. Whittier, America, American, United States, history, poet, poetry, anti-slavery movement, abolition, abolitionism, slavery, William Sloane Kennedy, slaves, emancipation, manumission
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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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Knights, Peter R.
The Plain People of Boston, 1830-1860: A Study in City Growth
(OUP, 1971).
With a handwritten note from the author. Hardback. Good+ in spine sunfaded and slightly worn dustwrapper. xv + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-A13198
Keywords: 019501488X, population, economics, cities, urban, city, Boston, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, statistics, demography, demographics
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DeVault, Ileen A.
Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh
(Cornell University Press, rpt, 1995).
Paperback. Very good+. xii + 194pp. Order No. NSBK-A14157
Keywords: 0801483077, Pittsburgh, clerical work, class, white collar labour, workers, clerical jobs, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, offices, office workers, twentieth century, careers, skilled workers, women, female
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Gidley, Mick.
Locating the Shakers: Cultural Origins and Legacies of an American Spiritual Movement
(Exeter UP, 1990).
With Kate Bowles and with an afterword by John Fowles. Paperback. Front cover slightly creased, otherwise very good. 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A3950
Keywords: 0859893510, Shaker, Shakers, Shakerism, religion, America, United States, American, spiritual movement, celibacy, history, eighteenth cenury, nineteenth century, utopia, utopian, Mother Ann Lee
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Stern, Madeleine B.
We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America
(Nebraska UP, rpt, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 403pp. Order No. NSBK-C2528
Keywords: 0803292236, America, American, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, career, sexual equality, women and work, women's work, job
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Willard, Frances E..
My Happy Half-Century: The Autobiograophy of an American Woman
(Ward, Locke and Bowden Ltd, 1895).
Edited by Frances E. Cook. With an introduction by Lady Henry Somerset. Hardback. Good in rubbed boards with gold embossed decoration, spine edges rubbed and slightly torn. x + 392pp. Order No. NSBK-C15522
Keywords: B002L24XH6, Frances E. Willard, women, women's history, women writers, woman writer, American, America, USA, United States, US, autobiography, self-history, nineteenth century, self-history
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Agricultural Economists, .
Proceedings of the First International Conference of Agricultural Economists: Held at Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, England, August 26 to September 6 1929
(The Collegiate Press, 1929).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. xi + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-A11312
Keywords: B000HBZTT4, agricultural, agriculturalists, agrarian, economy, economics, economic, finances, financial, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, international, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, farms, farming, agricultural economics, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States,
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Hill, Mary A.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Making of a Radical Feminist, 1860-1896
(Temple University Press, 1980).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good+. xi + 362pp. Order No. NSBK-C13666
Keywords: 087722160X, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Walsh, Margaret, ed.
Motor Transport:
(Ashgate, 1997).
Studies in Transport History. Hardback. Fine. xxiii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A10253
Keywords: 1859283454, motors, motor industry, cars, automobiles, markets, marketing, bus, buses, transport, Locomobile, Britain, British, England, English, history, American, USA, United States, Canada, Canadian, twentieth century, 20th, travel
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