wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Political Woman: Florence
ISBN: 9781566398190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Florence Hope Luscomb's life spanned nearly all of the twentieth century. Born into a remarkable family of abolitionists and progressive thinkers, the young Florence accompanied her feminist mother to lectures and political rallies, soon choosing a course of political engagement and social activism from which she never retreated.
Political Woman counters the traditional narratives that place men at the center of political thinking and history. Showing how three generations of Luscomb's family had set the stage for her activism, this biography presents her story against the backdrop of... Florence Hope Luscomb's life spanned nearly all of the twentieth century. Born into a remarkable family of abolitionists and progressive thinkers, the...
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150,66 zł |
Political Woman: Florence
ISBN: 9781566398183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Florence Hope Luscomb's life spanned nearly all of the twentieth century. Born into a remarkable family of abolitionists and progressive thinkers, the young Florence accompanied her feminist mother to lectures and political rallies, soon choosing a course of political engagement and social activism from which she never retreated.
Political Woman counters the traditional narratives that place men at the center of political thinking and history. Showing how three generations of Luscomb's family had set the stage for her activism, this biography presents her story against the backdrop of... Florence Hope Luscomb's life spanned nearly all of the twentieth century. Born into a remarkable family of abolitionists and progressive thinkers, the...
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415,76 zł |
Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett's Travelogue of 1868
ISBN: 9781617038327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied behind the Confederate cause, serving with distinction in the Confederate Army. After the war some of Swett's peers from Mississippi and other southern states invited him to explore the possibility of settling in British Honduras or the Republic of Honduras. Confederates in the Tropics uses Swett's 1868 travelogue to explore the motives of would-be Confederate migrants' fleeing defeat and Reconstruction in the United States South. The... Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied ... |
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188,43 zł |
Fortune, Fame, and Desire: Promoting the Self in the Long Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781442272651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a widening set of opportunities in the public sphere opened up for ambitious men and women in the loosely structured stratum of "the middle class." Much of the attention to the marketplace between 1820 and 1910 has described entrepreneurship and the beginnings of a more sophisticated economy, but not much has been paid to the commodification of the self. This book sets out to explore the promotion of the self in the rapidly growing economy and political flux of the nineteenth century. Its geography extends through New England, New York, the new...
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a widening set of opportunities in the public sphere opened up for ambitious men and women in the loo...
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486,87 zł |
Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett's Travelogue of 1868
ISBN: 9781604739947 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied behind the Confederate cause, serving with distinction in the Confederate Army. After the war some of Swett's peers from Mississippi and other southern states invited him to explore the possibility of settling in British Honduras or the Republic of Honduras. Confederates in the Tropics uses Swett's 1868 travelogue to explore the motives of would-be Confederate migrants' fleeing defeat and Reconstruction in the United States South.... Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied ... |
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340,21 zł |
BEYOND THE TYPEWRITER : "GENDER, CLASS, AND THE ORIGINS OF MODER
ISBN: 9780252064258 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. By World War I, managers wanted young women with some high school education for new light manufacturing jobs in the office. Women could be paid significantly less than men with equivalent educations and the marriage bar--the practice of not hiring or retaining married women--ensured that most of them would leave the workplace before the issue of higher salaries arose. Encouraged by free training gained in high schools and by working conditions better than those available in factories, young working-class women sought out office jobs. Facing sexual discrimination in most of the professions and...
By World War I, managers wanted young women with some high school education for new light manufacturing jobs in the office. Women could be paid signif...
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98,69 zł |
Women's Rights
ISBN: 9780313311352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Women's rights issues have been a part of the political and social fabric of the United States since the Declaration of Independence. In fact, women's rights activists have often wielded principles enunciated in the Declaration as they struggled to secure equality. This reference source examines 15 controversial issues concerning women's rights in the United States. A historical overview introduces each issue, followed by the presentation of primary documents that illustrate the various positions women and men have taken in support of or opposition to the issue at hand. Chapters... Women's rights issues have been a part of the political and social fabric of the United States since the Declaration of Independence. In fact, wome... |
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300,88 zł |