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Book A History of the Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary O'Dowd
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2018-04-10
  • ISBN : 331969278X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book A History of the Girl written by Mary O'Dowd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach to the history of the girl, as the contributors point to shared attitudes to girlhood and the similarity of the experiences of girls in workplaces across the world. Contributions to the volume also emphasise the central role of girls in the global economy, from their participation in the textile industry in the eighteenth century, through to the migration of girls to urban centres in twentieth-century Africa and China.

Book American Historical Pageantry

Download or read book American Historical Pageantry written by David Glassberg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What images shape Americans' perceptions of their past? How do particular versions of history become the public history? And how have these views changed over time? David Glassberg explores these important questions by examining the pageantry craze of the

Book The Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788 2008

Download or read book The Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788 2008 written by Serge Liberman and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography includes all traceable self-contained books, monographs, pamphlets and chapters from books which in some way pertain to Jews in Australia and New Zealand between 1788 and 2008 Born in Russia in 1942, Serge Liberman came to Australia in 1951, where he now works as a medical practitioner. As author of several short-story collections including On Firmer Shores, A Universe of Clowns, The Life That I Have Led, and The Battered and the Redeemed, he has three times received the Alan Marshall Award and has also been a recipient of the NSW Premier's Literary Award. In addition, he is compiler of two previous editions of A Bibliography of Australian Judaica. Several of his titles have been set as study texts in Australian and British high schools and universities. His literary work has been widely published; he has been Editor and Literary Editor of several respected journals and has contributed to many other publications.

Book Jubilee History

Download or read book Jubilee History written by Thomas F. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Daughters in Eastern Lands

Download or read book Western Daughters in Eastern Lands written by Rosemary Seton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a compelling narrative history of the experiences and achievements of female British missionaries in China, India, and Africa during the 19th century and first half of the 20th century—the first such account available. Despite the fact that by the early 20th century female missionaries began to outnumber their male counterparts, there are few publications that document the contributions of women to the missionary movement against a backdrop of civil unrest, famine, and war. Western Daughters in Eastern Lands: British Missionary Women in Asia provides accurate and insightful information to rectify this glaring omission. In this book, author Rosemary Seton draws upon memoirs, letters, diaries, and mission records to create a unique and fascinating history of the British women whose sense of vocation took them to the East. As most British missionary women of this period were Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, and Methodists, the focus is upon Protestant missionaries; Catholics are also included, however. Through these sources, a clear picture of women missionaries emerges: their social background and motivation; their lives on the mission-field and their place in mission hierarchies; their selection and training; and their educational, evangelical, and medical work. The book concludes with an assessment of their achievements and impact on foreign societies.

Book Christianity in Modern China

Download or read book Christianity in Modern China written by David Cheung and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph studies a significant episode in Chinese Christianity. Focusing on the origins of Protestantism in South Fujian, it investigates the evolution of the churches which pioneered in indigenization and ecclesiastical union in China during the 19th century.

Book Mark Lane Express

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book Mark Lane Express written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Albion and Jerusalem

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  • Author : Michael Clark
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009-03-05
  • ISBN : 0199562342
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Albion and Jerusalem written by Michael Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lionel de Rothschild's hard-fought entry into Parliament in 1858 marked the emancipation of Jews in Britain - the symbolic conclusion of Jews' campaign for equal rights and their inclusion as citizens after centuries of discrimination. Jewish life entered a new phase: the post-emancipation era. But what did this mean for the Jewish community and their interactions with wider society? And how did Britain's state and society react to its newest citizens? Emancipation was ambiguous. Acceptance carried expectations, as well as opportunities. Integrating into British society required changes to traditional Jewish identity, just as it also widened conceptions of Britishness. Many Jews willingly embraced their environment and fashioned a unique Jewish existence: mixing in all levels of society; experiencing economic success; and organising and translating its faith along Anglican grounds. However, unlike many other European Jews, Anglo-Jews stayed loyal to their faith. Conversion and outmarriage remained rare, and connections were maintained with foreign kin. The community was even willing at times to place its Jewish and English identity in conflict, as happened during the 1876-8 Eastern Crisis - which provoked the first episode of modern antisemitism in Britain. The nature of Jewish existence in Britain was unclear and developing in the post-emancipation era. Focusing upon inter-linked case studies of Anglo-Jewry's political activity, internal government, and religious development, Michael Clark explores the dilemmas of identity and inter-faith relations that confronted the minority in late nineteenth-century Britain. This was a crucial period in which the Anglo-Jewish community shaped the basis of its modern existence, whilst the British state explored the limits of its toleration.

Book A History of the British Sporting Journalist  c 1850 1939

Download or read book A History of the British Sporting Journalist c 1850 1939 written by Stephen Tate and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of this text strides James Catton, less than five feet tall but a giant in the field of sporting journalism. It is the story of his career, from boy reporter in 1870s Lancashire to editor of the influential Manchester-based weekly Athletic News and then grand old man of Fleet Street sports writing in the 1920s and ’30s. The book also presents the story of others, too—the first journalists to turn action into news as raw, carnivalesque, violent pastimes were replaced by codified and commercialised games. Detailing the history of their trade, the book searches for the roots of sports journalism, pushing, for the first time, the newspaper reporter to the foreground in the shared history of the press and sport. Editorial recruitment, training, writing styles, pay, status, rivalry and camaraderie, technology, celebrity, the press box, the player-reporter and drinking culture are all examined, as are the values men like Catton claimed sport, at its best, represented.

Book History of Indian Journalism

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. NATARAJAN
  • Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 8123026382
  • Pages : 719 pages

Download or read book History of Indian Journalism written by J. NATARAJAN and published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This book was released on with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Part II of the Press Commission Report contains a broad but concise survey of the development of the English and the Indian languages Press in India. It brings out the historical tendencies in so far as they affect the then state of the Press in the country, and serves as a background to the Press Commission enquiry.

Book Poorhouse to Paradise

Download or read book Poorhouse to Paradise written by Lyall Ford and published by Lyall Ford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paths of Resistance

Download or read book Paths of Resistance written by David Paul Thelen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at economic development and social change in one specific state, Missouri, between the Civil War and the First World War.

Book Balkan Economic History  1550 1950

Download or read book Balkan Economic History 1550 1950 written by John R. Lampe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1982-06-22 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western economic historians have traditionally concentrated on the success stories of major developed economies, while development economists have given most of their attnetion to the problems of the Third World. The authors of this pioneering work study a part of Europe neglected by both approaches. Modernizing patterns in Balkan economic history are traced from the sixteenth century (when the territory was shared by Ottoman and Habsburg empires), through the nineteenth century (when they emerged as independent states), to the end of World War II and its aftermath. Despite present differences in economic systems—Greece's private market economy, Yugoslavia's planned market economy, and the centrally planned economies of Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania—the authors find that shared origins and common subsequent experiences are ample justifications for treating the area as an economic unit. Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950 will be a major case study for development economists and will provide historians with the first analytical and statistical study to survey the entire region from the start of the early modern period.

Book Bulgarian British Review

Download or read book Bulgarian British Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sense of History

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  • Author : David Glassberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Sense of History written by David Glassberg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Americans enter the new century, their interest in the past has never been greater. In record numbers they visit museums and historic sites, attend commemorative ceremonies and festivals, watch historically based films, and reconstruct family genealogies. The question is, Why? What are Americans looking for when they engage with the past? And how is it different from what scholars call "history"? In this book, David Glassberg surveys the shifting boundaries between the personal, public, and professional uses of the past and explores their place in the broader cultural landscape. Each chapter investigates a specific encounter between Americans and their history: the building of a pacifist war memorial in a rural Massachusetts town; the politics behind the creation of a new historical festival in San Francisco; the letters Ken Burns received in response to his film series on the Civil War; the differing perceptions among black and white residents as to what makes an urban neighborhood historic; and the efforts to identify certain places in California as worthy of commemoration. Along the way, Glassberg reflects not only on how Americans understand and use the past, but on the role of professional historians in that enterprise. Combining the latest research on American memory with insights gained from Glassberg's more than twenty years of personal experience in a variety of public history projects, Sense of History offers stimulating reading for all who care about the future of history in America."--

Book J W  McConnell

Download or read book J W McConnell written by William Fong and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.W. McConnell (1877-1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen of his generation - in Canada and internationally. Early in his career McConnell established the Montreal office of the Standard Chemical Company and began selling bonds and shares in both North America and Europe, establishing relationships that would lead to his enormous financial success. He was involved in numerous businesses, from tramways to ladies' fashion to mining, and served on the boards of several corporations. For nearly fifty years he was president of St Laurence Sugar and late in life he became the owner and publisher of the Montreal Star. McConnell was an indefatigable and formidable fundraiser for the YMCA, the war effort of 1914/18, hospitals, and McGill University, where he served as governor for almost three decades. In 1937 he established what would become The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, the first major foundation in Canada and still one of the best endowed. J.W. McConnell was a principled and brilliant visionary with a strong work ethic and a deep commitment to the public good, a Rockefellerian figure in both big business and high society who quietly became one of the greatest philanthropists of his time. His life story - told in uncompromising detail by William Fong - is a study of raising, spending, and giving away money on the grandest scale.

Book Below These Mountains

Download or read book Below These Mountains written by Lyall Ford and published by Lyall Ford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical account of the Mills family beginning in the English Midlands, and tracing their immigration to the small mining township of Mount Britton in Queensland in 1865. Their son John Henry became an accomplished pioneer photographer. Author, who is grandson of Henry, describes life on a goldfield and explores themes of mateship, courage in adversity, faith in God and love of family. Includes photos, family trees, measurement conversion chart, bibliography and index. Author is an accomplished historical researcher having written other family histories.