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History of Women in the United States
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ISBN: 3598414714 3110971100 9783110971095 3110971097 9783110971095 9783598414718 3598416954 9783598416958 3598414544 9783598414541 311187835X Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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ISBN: 0739183389 1306202973 9781306202978 9780739183380 9780739183373 0739183370 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lexington Books

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The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton is a biography of one of Great Britain's most prominent social activists and examines his quest to improve humanity during the first half of the nineteenth century. Using Buxton's Memoirs and personal papers, as well as the writings of his friends and contemporaries, David Bruce paints a full portrait of an idealistic businessman driven by religious conviction and national pride who tried to influence the destiny of his country.


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Eilean Giblin
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ISBN: 192186785X 9781921867859 1921867841 9781921867842 9781921867842 Year: 2013 Publisher: Clayton, Victoria

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Reforming the world monetary system : Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio group.
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ISBN: 9781848933606 Year: 2013 Publisher: London Pickering and Chatto

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Passionate commitments : the lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins
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ISBN: 1461930839 1438446896 9781461930839 9781438446899 9781438446875 143844687X 1438446888 9781438446882 Year: 2013 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.


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The politics of prohibition : American governance and the Prohibition Party, 1869-1933
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ISBN: 9781139333627 9781107029378 1139333623 9781107416666 1107416663 9781107419322 1107419328 9781107420526 1107420520 1107029376 1139891286 1107424291 1107422353 1316615928 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition Party - drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F. Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial and personal resources from parties already lacking in both. More than most other minor parties, the Prohibition Party resisted an encroaching Democratic-Republican stranglehold over governance. When Prohibitionists found themselves excluded from elections, they devised a variety of tactics: they occupied saloons, pressed lawsuits, forged utopian communities, and organized dry consumers to solicit alcohol-free products.


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Champion of choice : the life and legacy of women's advocate Nafis Sadik
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ISBN: 0803246838 1283949083 9780803246836 9780803211049 080321104X 0803248881 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the world's foremost advocate for women's health and reproductive rights, the first female director of a United Nations agency, and "one of the most powerful women in the world" (London Times). An obstetrician, wife, mother, and devout Muslim, Sadik has been a courageous and tireless advocate for women, insisting on discussing the difficult issues that impact


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The tie that bound us
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ISBN: 0801469449 9780801469442 9780801451614 0801451612 1322523061 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ithaca

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John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown's raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him. Two of Brown's sons were killed at Harpers Ferry, but the commitment of his wife and daughters often goes unacknowledged. In The Tie That Bound Us, Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz reveals for the first time the depth of the Brown women's involvement in his cause and their crucial roles in preserving and transforming his legacy after his death. As detailed by Laughlin-Schultz, Brown's second wife Mary Ann Day Brown and his daughters Ruth Brown Thompson, Annie Brown Adams, Sarah Brown, and Ellen Brown Fablinger were in many ways the most ordinary of women, contending with chronic poverty and lives that were quite typical for poor, rural nineteenth-century women. However, they also lived extraordinary lives, crossing paths with such figures as Frederick Douglass and Lydia Maria Child and embracing an abolitionist moral code that sanctioned antislavery violence in place of the more typical female world of petitioning and pamphleteering. In the aftermath of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, the women of his family experienced a particular kind of celebrity among abolitionists and the American public. In their roles as what daughter Annie called "relics" of Brown's raid, they tested the limits of American memory of the Civil War, especially the war's most radical aim: securing racial equality. Because of their longevity (Annie, the last of Brown's daughters, died in 1926) and their position as symbols of the most radical form of abolitionist agitation, the story of the Brown women illuminates the changing nature of how Americans remembered Brown's raid, radical antislavery, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War.


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Fragments de vie
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ISBN: 9782757833230 2757833235 Year: 2013 Volume: 712 Publisher: Paris: Seuil,

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Germaine Tillion, décédée en avril 2008 à l'âge de cent ans, a connu un destin exceptionnel. Ethnologue et historienne, elle a été l'une des premières résistantes en France, avant d'être déportée à Ravensbrück. Dix ans après son retour des camps, elle s'est engagée dans un combat contre l'horreur qui s'installait dans les deux pays qui lui sont chers : l'Algérie qui a été son terrain de recherche, la France sa patrie bien-aimée. Au lendemain de la guerre, Germaine Tillion avait compris que les résultats des sciences humaines dépendaient étroitement de la personnalité de celui qui les pratique. Elle avait donc conçu le projet de raconter son apprentissage scientifique en évoquant les grands événements de sa vie. Tzvetan Todorov a essayé de reconstituer ce travail inachevé. Pour deux tiers composé de textes inédits, puisés dans les archives récemment classées, l'ensemble s'articule en cinq grandes séquences (Ethnologue en Algérie, Résistance et prison, Déportation, Après le camp, La guerre d'Algérie). Récit continu d'une vie intense, le livre révèle à la fois un penseur original et un écrivain de tout premier plan.

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