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Catalogue of the Astor Library

Author : Astor Library
Publisher : Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015077749912

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Catalogue of the Astor Library

Author : Astor library (N.Y.),Charles Alexander Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00116689

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Catalogue of the Astor Library by Astor library (N.Y.),Charles Alexander Nelson Pdf

Catalogue of the Astor Library

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00116692

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Women on Their Own

Author : Rudolph Bell,Virginia Yans
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813544014

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Women on Their Own by Rudolph Bell,Virginia Yans Pdf

Despite what would seem some apparent likenesses, single men and single women are perceived in very different ways. Bachelors are rarely considered "lonely" or aberrant. They are not pitied. Rather, they are seen as having chosen to be "footloose and fancy free" to have sports cars, boats, and enjoy a series of unrestrictive relationships. Single women, however, do not enjoy such an esteemed reputation. Instead they have been viewed as abnormal, neurotic, or simply undesirable-attitudes that result in part from the long-standing belief that single women would not have chosen her life. Even the single career-woman is seldom viewed as enjoying the success she has achieved. No one believes she is truly fulfilled. Modern American culture has raised generations of women who believed that their true and most important role in society was to get married and have children. Anything short of this role was considered abnormal, unfulfilling, and suspect. This female stereotype has been exploited and perpetuated by some key films in the late 40's and early 50's. But more recently we have seen a shift in the cultural view of the spinster. The erosion of the traditional nuclear family, as well as a larger range of acceptable life choices, has caused our perceptions of unmarried women to change. The film industry has reflected this shift with updated stereotypes that depict this cultural trend. The shift in the way we perceive spinsters is the subject of current academic research which shows that a person's perception of particular societal roles influences the amount of stress or depression they experience when in that specific role. Further, although the way our culture perceives spinsters and the way the film industry portrays them may be evolving, we still are still left with a negative stereotype. Themes of choice and power have informed the lives of single women in all times and places. When considered at all in a scholarly context, single women have often been portrayed as victims, unhappily subjected to forces beyond their control. This collection of essays about "women on their own" attempts to correct that bias, by presenting a more complex view of single women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States and Europe. Topics covered in this book include the complex and ambiguous roles that society assigns to widows, and the greater social and financial independence that widows have often enjoyed; widow culture after major wars; the plight of homeless, middle-class single women during the Great Depression; and comparative sociological studies of contemporary single women in the United States, Britain, Ireland, and Cuba. Composed of papers presented to the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis project on single women, this collection incorporates the work of specialists in anthropology, art history, history, and sociology. It is deeply connected with the emerging field of singleness studies (to which the RCHA has contributed an Internet-based bibliography of more than 800 items). All of the essays are new and have not been previously published.

Excelsior

Author : Hutchinson Family (Singers)
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0918728657

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Excelsior by Hutchinson Family (Singers) Pdf

The journals of the New Hampshire family that became the best-known musicians of the day chronicle not only their performances and adventures first hand, but explore the social, economic and cultural life of the time.

Albany Institute of History and Art

Author : Tammis K. Groft,Mary Alice Mackay
Publisher : Albany Institute of History and Art
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781438429946

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Albany Institute of History and Art by Tammis K. Groft,Mary Alice Mackay Pdf

Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History and Art is one of the nation's oldest cultural institutions. Today, it boasts outstanding collections largely focused on New York State's Upper Hudson Valley. These include Hudson River School landscape paintings, portraits by Ezra Ames and Charles Loring Elliott, sculpture by Erastus Dow Palmer, landscape and interior paintings by Walter Launt Palmer, and Albany –made silver and other crafts. This comprehensive overview of the Albany Institute of History and Art's American art and decorative-arts collections, presents color plates and essays on about 130 objects (of a total exceeding 20,000). Dating from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the 1990s, each object in this volume was chosen for its national significance, artistic merit, and relevance to the Institute's mission: collecting and interpreting the art, history, and culture of New York State's Upper Hudson Valley through four centuries.

The Archaeology of Race in the Northeast

Author : Christopher N. Matthews,Allison Manfra McGovern
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813055176

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The Archaeology of Race in the Northeast by Christopher N. Matthews,Allison Manfra McGovern Pdf

Historical and archaeological records show that racism and white supremacy defined the social fabric of the northeastern states as much as they did the Deep South. This collection of essays looks at both new sites and well-known areas to explore race, resistance, and supremacy in the region. With essays covering farm communities and cities from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century, the contributors examine the marginalization of minorities and use the material culture to illustrate the significance of race in understanding daily life. Drawing on historical resources and critical race theory, they highlight the context of race at these sites, noting the different experiences of various groups, such as African American and Native American communities. This cutting-edge research turns with new focus to the dynamics of race and racism in early American life and demonstrates the coming of age of racialization studies.

The Corporate City

Author : Leonard P. Curry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313029899

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The Corporate City by Leonard P. Curry Pdf

This book begins the comparative study of U.S. urban development during the first half of the 19th century. Breathtaking in its comprehensiveness, its survey and comparisons of early urban politics is without parallel. The study is based on a thorough examination of fifteen cities—Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Charleston, Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. Louis, and Washington. This group of cities—the fifteen largest in 1850—provides a good mix of northern and southern, eastern and western, old and new, and fast- and slow-growing urban centers. This volume deals with the city as a corporate entity and contains chapters on urban governmental structures, government finance, politics and elections, urban political leadership, the city plan and city planning, intergovernmental relations, and urban mercantilism.