Author: Elaine F. Weiss
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597972738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The women who kept the farms going while the soldiers were Over There
Fruits of Victory
Author: Elaine F. Weiss
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597972738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The women who kept the farms going while the soldiers were Over There
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597972738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The women who kept the farms going while the soldiers were Over There
Cultivating Victory
Author: Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822944251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles during World Wars I and II by campaigns to recruit Women's Land Armies in Great Britain and the United States to cultivate victory gardens. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through women's ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women's Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822944251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles during World Wars I and II by campaigns to recruit Women's Land Armies in Great Britain and the United States to cultivate victory gardens. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through women's ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women's Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.
Edible Paradise
Author: Jessie Kanelos Weiner
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0789336685
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautiful, intricately illustrated coloring book rejoices in the magnificence of the edible plant kingdom. Appealing to all ages from gardeners and farmers market loving foodies to parents wanting to inspire their children with incorporating more fruits and vegetables into their diets. A delightfully whimsical coloring book celebrating the delicious bounty of the edible plant kingdom.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0789336685
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautiful, intricately illustrated coloring book rejoices in the magnificence of the edible plant kingdom. Appealing to all ages from gardeners and farmers market loving foodies to parents wanting to inspire their children with incorporating more fruits and vegetables into their diets. A delightfully whimsical coloring book celebrating the delicious bounty of the edible plant kingdom.
The Woman's Hour
Author: Elaine Weiss
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698407830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
"Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader"--Hillary Rodham Clinton Soon to Be a Major Television Event The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "With a skill reminiscent of Robert Caro, [Weiss] turns the potentially dry stuff of legislative give-and-take into a drama of courage and cowardice."--The Wall Street Journal "Weiss is a clear and genial guide with an ear for telling language ... She also shows a superb sense of detail, and it's the deliciousness of her details that suggests certain individuals warrant entire novels of their own... Weiss's thoroughness is one of the book's great strengths. So vividly had she depicted events that by the climactic vote (spoiler alert: The amendment was ratified!), I got goose bumps."--Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times Book Review Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698407830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
"Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader"--Hillary Rodham Clinton Soon to Be a Major Television Event The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "With a skill reminiscent of Robert Caro, [Weiss] turns the potentially dry stuff of legislative give-and-take into a drama of courage and cowardice."--The Wall Street Journal "Weiss is a clear and genial guide with an ear for telling language ... She also shows a superb sense of detail, and it's the deliciousness of her details that suggests certain individuals warrant entire novels of their own... Weiss's thoroughness is one of the book's great strengths. So vividly had she depicted events that by the climactic vote (spoiler alert: The amendment was ratified!), I got goose bumps."--Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times Book Review Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
The Bitter Taste of Victory
Author: Lara Feigel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408845318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.6 million German homes had been destroyed leaving 7.5 million people homeless; an apocalyptic landscape of flattened cities and desolate wastelands. In May 1945 Germany surrendered, and Britain, America, Soviet Russia and France set about rebuilding their zones of occupation. Most urgent for the Allies in this divided, defeated country were food, water and sanitation, but from the start they were anxious to provide for the minds as well as the physical needs of the German people. Reconstruction was to be cultural as well as practical: denazification and re-education would be key to future peace and the arts crucial in modelling alternative, less militaristic, ways of life. Germany was to be reborn; its citizens as well as its cities were to be reconstructed; the mindset of the Third Reich was to be obliterated. When, later that year, twenty-two senior Nazis were put in the dock at Nuremberg, writers and artists including Rebecca West, Evelyn Waugh, John Dos Passos and Laura Knight were there to tell the world about a trial intended to ensure that tyrannous dictators could never again enslave the people of Europe. And over the next four years, many of the foremost writers and filmmakers of their generation were dispatched by Britain and America to help rebuild the country their governments had spent years bombing. Among them, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell, Lee Miller, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Billy Wilder and Humphrey Jennings. The Bitter Taste of Victory traces the experiences of these figures and through their individual stories offers an entirely fresh view of post-war Europe. Never before told, this is a brilliant, important and utterly mesmerising history of cultural transformation.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408845318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.6 million German homes had been destroyed leaving 7.5 million people homeless; an apocalyptic landscape of flattened cities and desolate wastelands. In May 1945 Germany surrendered, and Britain, America, Soviet Russia and France set about rebuilding their zones of occupation. Most urgent for the Allies in this divided, defeated country were food, water and sanitation, but from the start they were anxious to provide for the minds as well as the physical needs of the German people. Reconstruction was to be cultural as well as practical: denazification and re-education would be key to future peace and the arts crucial in modelling alternative, less militaristic, ways of life. Germany was to be reborn; its citizens as well as its cities were to be reconstructed; the mindset of the Third Reich was to be obliterated. When, later that year, twenty-two senior Nazis were put in the dock at Nuremberg, writers and artists including Rebecca West, Evelyn Waugh, John Dos Passos and Laura Knight were there to tell the world about a trial intended to ensure that tyrannous dictators could never again enslave the people of Europe. And over the next four years, many of the foremost writers and filmmakers of their generation were dispatched by Britain and America to help rebuild the country their governments had spent years bombing. Among them, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell, Lee Miller, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Billy Wilder and Humphrey Jennings. The Bitter Taste of Victory traces the experiences of these figures and through their individual stories offers an entirely fresh view of post-war Europe. Never before told, this is a brilliant, important and utterly mesmerising history of cultural transformation.
Tarnished Victory
Author: William Marvel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547428065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547428065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War.
The Fruit of Christ's Presence
Author: Harry Lee Poe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780805460124
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"... Harry L. Poe explores the meaning of the Fruit of the Spirit as described by Paul in Galatians." [book back cover].
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780805460124
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"... Harry L. Poe explores the meaning of the Fruit of the Spirit as described by Paul in Galatians." [book back cover].
The Gettysburg Campaign
Author: Edwin B. Coddington
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684845695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
The Battle of Gettysburg remains one of the most controversial military actions in America's history, and one of the most studied. Professor Coddington's is an analysis not only of the battle proper, but of the actions of both Union and Confederate armies for the six months prior to the battle and the factors affecting General Meade’s decision not to pursue the retreating Confederate forces. This book contends that Gettysburg was a crucial Union victory, primarily because of the effective leadership of Union forces—not, as has often been said, only because the North was the beneficiary of Lee's mistakes. Scrupulously documented and rich in fascinating detail, The Gettysburg Campaign stands as one of the landmark works in the history of the Civil War.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684845695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
The Battle of Gettysburg remains one of the most controversial military actions in America's history, and one of the most studied. Professor Coddington's is an analysis not only of the battle proper, but of the actions of both Union and Confederate armies for the six months prior to the battle and the factors affecting General Meade’s decision not to pursue the retreating Confederate forces. This book contends that Gettysburg was a crucial Union victory, primarily because of the effective leadership of Union forces—not, as has often been said, only because the North was the beneficiary of Lee's mistakes. Scrupulously documented and rich in fascinating detail, The Gettysburg Campaign stands as one of the landmark works in the history of the Civil War.
Some Fruits of Solitude
Author: William Penn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maxims
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maxims
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Flowers and Fruits Stained Glass Pattern Book
Author: Carol Krez
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486279421
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Sixty-seven designs — rows of tulips, branches of plums and apples, California poppies, rose and dahlia blossoms, and more — are clearly outlined and easy to follow.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486279421
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Sixty-seven designs — rows of tulips, branches of plums and apples, California poppies, rose and dahlia blossoms, and more — are clearly outlined and easy to follow.