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  • Little Miss Somebody

    Fourteen-year-old Nikki's world is turned upside down when her mother makes an impulsive move to Missouri. Having left everything she knew behind, Nikki is left to fend for herself from her mother's vicious cycle of abuse and abandonment while living at her grandmother's house amidst her mother's drug addicted siblings. Feeling unloved and more than ever like a burden, Nikki seeks to find a ... Read more

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  • Bismarck and the German Empire

    1871–1918

    by Lynn Abrams ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    Updated and expanded, this second edition of Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871–1918 is an accessible introduction to this important period in German history.Providing both a narrative of events at the time and an analysis of social and cultural developments across the period, Lynn Abrams examines the political, economic and social structures of the Empire. Including the latest research, the ... Read more

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  • Feminist Lives

    Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

    Could women be feminist without feminism? Could they foster feminist activism without a movement or an ideology? Could they recraft ways of being female without a plan? Feminist Lives adopts a woman-centred approach to explore these questions and to understand how British women charted a new way of being female in the three decades before the Women's Liberation Movement. By focusing on the ... Read more

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  • Black Girls Lives Matter Too!!

    A SMALL BOOK WITH POWERFUL WORDSThe title of this book “Black Girls Lives Matter Too!!” is derived from personal experiences. Valerie and her daughter continue to be affected by the challenges and harmfulness that confronts them. Valerie’s daughter wants you to know that she was adopted as an infant and her parents are magnificent parents! Even with a great upbringing with both Christian parents ... Read more

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  • Gender Relations In German History

    Power, Agency And Experience From The Sixteenth To The Twentieth Century

    Edited by Lynn Abrams, Elizabeth Harvey ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    This collection of essays examines the construction of gender norms in early modern and modern Germany.; The modes of reinforcement by the state, the church, the law and marriage, and the resistance to these norms by individuals, are central to each of the contributions.; It examines discourses of the body and sexuality and the relations between gender and power. Similarly, the usefulness of the ... Read more

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  • Glasgow

    High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period

    Series series Built Environment City Studies
    In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the technologies of modernity they built into the sky, developing high-rise estates on vacant sites within the city and ... Read more

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  • Modern women on trial

    Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper

    Series series Gender in History
    Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Woman

    by Lynn Abrams ...
    Series series Longman History of European Women
    Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should be and how she should act. From domestic ideology to women's suffrage, this book charts the contests for woman's ... Read more

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  • Oral History Theory

    by Lynn Abrams ...
    Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. Combining the study of theories drawn from disciplines ranging from linguistics to psychoanalysis with the observations of practitioners and including extensive examples of oral ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany

    Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia

    by Lynn Abrams ...
    Workers Culture in Imperial Germany represents the first alternative approach to the study of workers' culture in Imperial Germany. It is also the first comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's modern leisure industry. The central concern of the book is the emergence of a distinct workers' culture which provided a disparate and heterogeneous working class with a focus of ... Read more

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    Series Book 4 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars.In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley collection of principalities, Free Cities, and bishoprics into one Reich. In England, ... Read more

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