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American gold digger : marriage, money, and the law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith
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ISBN: 9798890853110 1469660296 146966027X 9781469660301 146966030X 9781469660295 9781469660271 1469660288 9781469660288 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press,

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Whether feared, admired, or desired, the 'gold digger' appears almost everywhere gender, sexuality, class, and race collide. This work reveals the assumptions and disputes around women's sexual agency in American life, shedding new light on the cultural and legal forces underpinning romantic, sexual, and marital relationships.


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The fortune hunter : a German prince in Regency England
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ISBN: 1283411822 9786613411822 1908493291 9781908493293 9781908493286 1908493283 9781904955719 1904955711 Year: 2011 Publisher: [England] : Andrews UK,

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The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society became.The most colourful of these men was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871), remembered today as Germany's finest landscape gardener. In the mid-1820's, however, his efforts to turn his estate into a magnificent park came close t...

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