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Working dogs --- Dogs --- World War, 1914-1918 --- War use --- History --- Dogs. --- Rags --- United States.

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Born Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer, Maintenon founded and directed the celebrated academy for aristocratic women at Saint-Cyr. This volume presents the dialogues and addresses in which Maintenon explains her controversial philosophy of education for women. Denounced by her contemporaries as a political schemer and religious fanatic, Maintenon has long been criticized as an opponent of gender equality. The writings in this volume faithfully reflect Maintenon's respect for social hierarchy and her stoic call for women to accept the duties of their state in life. But the writings also echo Maintenon's more feminist concerns: the need to redefine the virtues in the light of women's experience, the importance of naming the constraints on women's freedom, and the urgent need to remedy the scandalous neglect of the education of women. In her writings as well as in her own model school at Saint-Cyr, Maintenon embodies the demand for educational reform as the key to the empowerment of women at the dawn of modernity.

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"This is a book about waste transformed, and reuse, repurposing, and recycling -- and how we consume the products of our industry. Through the story of shoddy, Hanna Rose Shell takes up these provocative topics and offers a new way for us to think critically about them. Shoddy is a global potpourri of textile waste manufactured into a saleable commodity: for example, wool that has been sorted, scoured, stuffed into rag-grinding machines, and remade into new clothes and textile and upholstery products. Both of-the-moment and truly historical, the book sends us back to West Yorkshire, 1812 and the birth of the commodification of waste through processing, before pushing us forward again with interviews and images from shoddy towns, waste dumps, textile labs, and rag shredding factories in the US and UK. Along the way we see exposed the political, ethical, environmental, and other ways shoddy has transformed lives and landscapes"--

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Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive land and water rights, swayed legislatures and courts, monopolized western beef markets, and imposed their corporate will on California's natural environment.

Cattle trade --- Animal industry --- Packing-houses --- Land use --- Water rights --- Big business --- Industrialization --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Economic concentration --- Business --- Business enterprises --- Industries --- Rights, Water --- Water --- Riparian rights --- Water trusts --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Meat packing industry --- Packing industry --- Red meat processing plants --- Food processing plants --- Meat industry and trade --- Animal products industry --- Livestock industry --- Agricultural industries --- Cattle industry --- History. --- Size --- Law and legislation --- Miller & Lux --- Miller and Lux --- agriculture. --- american west. --- beef markets. --- business. --- butchers. --- california. --- economics. --- environment. --- ethnicity. --- frontier. --- history. --- immigrants. --- immigration. --- industrial enterprises. --- industrialism. --- labor. --- land acquisition. --- land reclamation. --- land rights. --- landscapes. --- meatpacking. --- miller and lux. --- monopoly. --- natural resources. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- rags to riches. --- rancheros. --- san francisco. --- segregation. --- water politics. --- water rights. --- waterscapes. --- western industrialism.