Author: Stanley Wood
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Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Amy G. Richter
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080787647X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic and dangerous place full of potential, where various groups came together, collided, and influenced one another, for better or worse. The example of the American railroad reveals how, by the beginning of the twentieth century, this image was replaced by one of a domesticated public realm--a public space in which both women and men increasingly strove to make themselves "at home." Through efforts that ranged from the homey touches of railroad car decor to advertising images celebrating female travelers and legal cases sanctioning gender-segregated spaces, travelers and railroad companies transformed the railroad from a place of risk and almost unlimited social mixing into one in which white men and women alleviated the stress of unpleasant social contact. Making themselves "at home" aboard the trains, white men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet still preserved the railroad as a masculine domain.

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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Author: Richard S. Peale
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 846

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Walter Hale
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782891889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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[Illustrated with 47 paintings and photos] Walter Hale was a man of many talents - actor, writer, artist and war correspondent - before his life was cut short by cancer in 1917. It is fitting, however, that he was able to visit the front lines of the Western Front during the First World War, for the sights and stories that he recorded with pen, camera and paintbrush were well worth recording. That he was in the right time and place he put down to good luck; however, it seems only fair to record that he seems to have made his own luck on what would be a hard driven tour of the beleaguered front. As the author confirms in his introduction, his work is not a military history, but a portrait of the people, places, buildings and landscapes of Northern France and the effect of war on them.

Author: Lynne Tapper
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1780885334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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It Is What It Is…Someone once said, ‘All the world’s a stage’, and never was a truer word spoken than in the squiffy Kingdom of It Is What It Is, where happily-ever-after has become nothing more than a fictional tale. Looking for love in all the wrong places, the fairy tale has turned into a nightmare for a charmless prince, named Rescue Me, who seeks ‘happily-ever-after’ within his crummy cracker addiction. As he battles his crummy cravings the law of addled attraction ensures that he encounters other desperados dealing with their own addictions- from the sublime to the ridiculous. Join us for a riotous ride you’re not likely to forget and laugh with us as we observe that in the Kingdom of It Is What It Is, people have definitely lost the plot!

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Publisher: john F, Dillon
ISBN: 1434927857
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Languages : en
Pages : 200

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