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Framing the moron: The social construction of feeble-mindedness in the American eugenic era (Disability History MUP) by Gerald V O'Brien
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:Gerald V O'Brien [O'Brien, Gerald V]

Because of the ‘flood’ of immigrants who were presumed to be feeble-minded or otherwise ‘dysgenic’, the work of the eugenicists was portrayed by some as a Sisyphean task so long ...
( Category: Sociology November 24,2018 )
The Austin Food Blogger Alliance Cookbook by The Austin Food Blogger Alliance
epub |eng | 2018-11-23 | Author:The Austin Food Blogger Alliance

( Category: Photography & Video November 24,2018 )
Her Own Hero by Rouse Wendy L.;
epub |eng | | Author:Rouse, Wendy L.;

American Suffragists Some American suffragists drew inspiration from British suffragettes who had consciously trained to use their bodies as physical sites of political struggles. There was a clear exchange of ...
( Category: World November 22,2018 )
River, Reaper, Rail by Timothy Thoresen
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy Thoresen

17. Making Sense of Civil War The Civil War caught everyone and no one by surprise. Because Champaign County’s political heritage included both the Northwest Ordinance ban on slavery north ...
( Category: Americas November 21,2018 )
The Boys of Fairy Town by Jim Elledge
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:Jim Elledge

12 All Have Waitresses Who Are Lads in Gal’s Clothing Either put on pants or go to jail. LORENZO BANYARD RECALLED THAT in the early 1930s, he would watch scores ...
( Category: Americas November 21,2018 )
Reefer Madness by Larry "Ratso" Sloman
epub |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:Larry "Ratso" Sloman

( Category: Politics & Government November 20,2018 )
Moscow 1941 by Rodric Braithwaite
epub |eng | 2006-11-17 | Author:Rodric Braithwaite

– TWELVE – PANIC As autumn drew in, the people of Moscow started to get very cold indeed. The mines of the Ukraine and Western Russia were in the hands ...
( Category: Military November 18,2018 )
Fifty Key Thinkers on History (Routledge Key Guides) by Hughes-Warrington Marnie
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Hughes-Warrington, Marnie [Hughes-Warrington, Marnie]

Notes 1 K. Jenkins, At the Limits of History: Essays on Theory and Practice, London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 150–68. 2 See for example K. Jenkins and P. Brickley, ‘Reflections on ...
( Category: World November 18,2018 )
The World's First SWAT Team by Leroy Thompson
epub |eng | 2013-07-11 | Author:Leroy Thompson

THE RED MARIA No one who saw the Red Maria would forget it. It was so imposing, in fact, that it became the symbol of the Reserve Unit, a potent ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 17,2018 )
Travelers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd
epub |eng | | Author:Julia Boyd

Spiridon Louis [dressed in national costume] separates himself from his comrades. In his hand is the simple olive twig from the grove at Olympia. Forty years ago he won the ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 17,2018 )
The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 by Sara Pennell
epub |eng | | Author:Sara Pennell

A woman’s place? The kitchens, butteries and all other offices pertaining, were … part of the establishment … and well under the housewife’s supervision.111 The notion of the ‘kitchen’ as ...
( Category: Europe November 17,2018 )
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology by Manning Marable
azw3 |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Manning Marable [Marable, Manning]

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: Carole Boyce Davies, “Deportable Subjects: U.S. Immigration Laws and the Criminalizing of Communism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 100, no. 4 (Fall 2001), pp. 949–66. ———, Left of Karl Marx: ...
( Category: Americas November 17,2018 )
Forget "Having It All by Amy Westervelt
epub |eng | 2018-11-12 | Author:Amy Westervelt

( Category: World November 14,2018 )
Snows of Yesteryear, The by Gregor Von Rezzori
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Gregor Von Rezzori [Rezzori, Gregor Von]

The Sister A child’s paintings on some sheets of paper: large, wondrously dark-shaded flowers, stemless and floating in space as in the world of the blind. Next to it an ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 12,2018 )
London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Henry Mayhew

600 Horses, at 25l. each 15,000 600 Sets of harness, at 2l. per set 1,200 600 Ladders, at 5s. each 150 1,200 Baskets, at 2s. each 120 1,200 Shovels, at ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 9,2018 )

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