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Irvine

By: Ellen Baker Bell,Irvine Historical Society

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Irvine

By: Ellen Baker Bell,Irvine Historical Society

The story of Irvine goes back more than 200 years, to a time when it was a vast, sprawling ranch extending from the brush-covered foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains to the dramatic bluffs of the Pacific coast. Since that time, the Irvine Ranch has experienced a revolutionary change from pastoral wide-open spaces to one of the most successful planned communities in the nation. All along the way, there were people whose vision shaped the transformation of Irvine. Among them were the members of the Irvine family, who for nearly a century were stewards of a ranch that amounted to more than one-fifth of modern-day Orange County. The Irvine of today owes its success to the ideals from its past: the determination to develop the immense potential of the land while still preserving its natural beauty.

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0738575755

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Irvine

By: Ellen Baker Bell,Irvine Historical Society

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By: Ellen Baker Bell,Irvine Historical Society

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Scottish Ancestry

Research Methods for Family Historians

By: Sherry Irvine

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Scottish Ancestry

Research Methods for Family Historians

By: Sherry Irvine

The world of genealogical research has changed dramatically in the years since this book debuted. In this revised second edition, Sherry Irvine mixes her award-winning methodology with up-to-date instruction on how to utilize the latest computer and internet sources for Scottish research. She also broadens the scope from a guide for North Americans to a useful resource for researchers from all over the globe. For family historians researching Scottish roots, this book continues to be indispensable.

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Ancestry Publishing

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1593310277

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9781593310271

Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth-Century Quebec

The Upper St Francis District

By: John Irvine Little

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Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth-Century Quebec

The Upper St Francis District

By: John Irvine Little

In the late 1830s the governments of Britain and Lower Canada, the Catholic Church, and a number of capitalist enterprises began to play a role in the settlement and exploitation of the economically marginal Upper St Francis district of Southern Quebec. British attempts to encourage immigration were largely unsuccessful but by mid-century the building of roads attracted a flood of French Canadians from the south-shore seigneuries.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773506993

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9780773506992

Loyalties in Conflict

A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion, 1812-1840

By: John Irvine Little

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Loyalties in Conflict

A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion, 1812-1840

By: John Irvine Little

Loyalties in Conflict examines how the allegiance to British authority of the American-origin population within the borders of Lower Canada was tested by the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-1838.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802097731

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9780802097736

Colonial Settlers on the River Torrens

By: Roger Irvine

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Colonial Settlers on the River Torrens

By: Roger Irvine

The Kaurna people lived peacefully and productively along the River Torrens, or Karrawirra Parri, for millennia. This book describes their way of life and their displacement by the first generation of European settlers. The outstanding achievement of the settlers on the upper Torrens was the contribution they made to the development of horticulture. They transitioned from grains and livestock to producing huge quantities of melons and an impressive diversity of fruits, vines and vegetables. Roger Irvine details the lives of these settler families, including notables such as Charles Campbell who gave his name to 'Campbell Town', Joseph Ind whose property 'Little Paradise' provided a name for another suburb, and A.J. Murray who chose 'Athelstone' as the name of his farm, for reasons now difficult to trace. The inhabitants of the upper Torrens have witnessed many changes, including both setbacks and successes. Colonial Settlers on the River Torrens reflects on an area that has had many incarnations, and the river that continues to flow through it.

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Wakefield Press

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1743056044

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9781743056042

Crofters and Habitants

Settler Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township, 1848-1881

By: John Irvine Little

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Crofters and Habitants

Settler Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township, 1848-1881

By: John Irvine Little

In Crofters and Habitants, J.I. Little examines the ways in which two highly distinct social groups -- Gælic-speaking crofters from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and French-speaking habitants from south of Quebec City -- adapted to a common physical environment in the rugged Appalachian plateau of south-eastern Quebec.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773508074

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9780773508071

Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism : From the Revolution to World War II

From the Revolution to World War II

By: John Carlos Rowe Professor of English University of California at Irvine

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Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism : From the Revolution to World War II

From the Revolution to World War II

By: John Carlos Rowe Professor of English University of California at Irvine

John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195351231

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The Anglo-Dutch Moment

Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact

By: Jonathan Irvine Israel

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The Anglo-Dutch Moment

Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact

By: Jonathan Irvine Israel

This book sets the Glorious Revolution in its full British, European and American context, and to show how fundamentally our picture of the English Revolution, as well as of the Revolutionary process of 1688-91, is now being transformed.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521544068

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9780521544061

The Other Quebec

Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-century Religion and Society

By: John Irvine Little

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The Other Quebec

Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-century Religion and Society

By: John Irvine Little

The Other Quebec explores some of the complex ways that religious institutions and beliefs affected the rural societies in which the majority of Canadians still lived in the nineteenth century.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802093973

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9780802093974

Child Letters

Public and Private Life in a Canadian Merchant-Politician's Family, 1841-1845

By: Marcus Child,John Irvine Little

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Child Letters

Public and Private Life in a Canadian Merchant-Politician's Family, 1841-1845

By: Marcus Child,John Irvine Little

The Child Letters yields an intimate look at the daily life of an ordinary Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the recently unified province of Canada. A collection of the almost daily correspondence between Marcus Child and his family while he was attending legislative sessions in Kingston, the capital, the letters yield important insights into both political and family matters. The letters provide the first detailed history of Eastern Township politics during the 1830s and 1840s. They are also an excellent source of information for the social historian, reflecting the concerns of one nineteenth-century Canadian family outside the small British-born elite. Issues discussed in the letters include religion and moral reform, daughter Elizabeth's search for a husband, local life in Stanstead village, and vignettes of social life among MLAs in Kingston. Furthermore, the letters support recent findings that gender identities were not as strictly defined during this era as earlier historians have suggested. The Child letters present the first detailed history of Eastern Township politics during the 1830s and 1840s, providing increased insight into the important constitutional crises of the early 1840s and giving readers a glimpse at the thoughts of a nineteenth-century Canadian family outside the small British-born elite.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773512608

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9780773512603

Going to Ireland

A Genealogical Researcher's Guide

By: Sherry Irvine,Nora Hickey

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Going to Ireland

A Genealogical Researcher's Guide

By: Sherry Irvine,Nora Hickey

In a few weeks, a few months, next year, sometime-- you are going on a genealogical research trip to Ireland. Success will depend upon having names to work with and on some knowledge of place and time; progress will be better if some things are done before departure. How do you prepare, and do your best to insure research time is well spent? Start with this guide. The authors have considerable experience in helping genealogists begin their research in North America and in guiding them through the steps they must take in Ireland. The book introduces researchers to Irish boundaries, Irish records and Irish repositories. There are suggestions for what to do at home, outlines of the contents and services of archives and libraires in Ireland, as well as some travel advice. The bibliography lists those how-to books and reference works which will build understanding and even speed the process. As well as being full of useful information, this handy guide is easy to take along. Don't leave home without it!

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Trafford Publishing

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1412240549

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9781412240543

The Hosanna Shout

A Moroni Traveler Novel

By: Robert R. Irvine

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The Hosanna Shout

A Moroni Traveler Novel

By: Robert R. Irvine

Moroni Traveler, the Salt Lake City investigator heralded by the New York Times Book Review as "a true rebel hero in the classic private-eye tradition," finds himself working on a very personal case as he and his adoptive father, Martin, look for the three-year-old child who may or may not be Moroni's son. Tracking down a lead, the two men end up in a virtual ghost town in the Oquirrh Mountains. All but deserted, the old mining town of Bingham Canyon is about to be evacuated and razed by the powerful Kennecott Copper Company, which is eager to get at the mineral wealth buried beneath the community. A few families are hanging on, though, including one that may be sheltering the newest Traveler. The father-son duo's efforts are hampered by the slated demolition of their offices in the Chester Building, and even more so by the antics of their fellow tenants, Mad Bill and Charlie Redwine, whose latest shenanigans have evoked the wrath of the church. With Martin trying to preserve the building and protect Bill and Charlie, Moroni continues the search—until murder rears its ugly head and the investigation moves into a whole new dimension.

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Blackstone Publishing

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1482102145

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9781482102147

The Cheshire Sheaf. Local Gleanings, Historical & Antiquarian, from Many Scattered Fields

Vol. II

By: Francis Sanders,William Fergusson Irvine

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The Cheshire Sheaf. Local Gleanings, Historical & Antiquarian, from Many Scattered Fields

Vol. II

By: Francis Sanders,William Fergusson Irvine

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385353211

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9783385353213

State and Society in Transition

The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern Townships, 1838-1852

By: John Irvine Little

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State and Society in Transition

The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern Townships, 1838-1852

By: John Irvine Little

Examining the process of state formation as it occurred in the Eastern Townships of Quebec following the unification of Upper and Lower Canada, J.I. Little argues that institutional reform was not simply imposed by the government but the result of a complex process of interaction between the state and the local community. While past studies look at state formation in the post-Rebellion period largely from the perspective of the central government, State and Society in Transition focuses on the significant role the local population played in shaping institutional reforms.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773515445

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9780773515444

Trespass

Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

By: Amy Irvine

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Trespass

Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

By: Amy Irvine

Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was among her own people. But more than simply an exploration of personal loss, Trespass is an elegy for a dying world, for the ruin of one of our most beloved and unique desert landscapes and for our vanishing connection to it. Fearing what her father's fate might somehow portend for her, Irvine retreated into the remote recesses of the Colorado Plateau—home not only to the world's most renowned national parks but also to a rugged brand of cowboy Mormonism that stands in defiant contrast to the world at large. Her story is one of ruin and restoration, of learning to live among people who fear the wilderness the way they fear the devil and how that fear fuels an antagonism toward environmental concerns that pervades the region. At the same time, Irvine mourns her own loss of wildness and disconnection from spirituality, while ultimately discovering that the provinces of nature and faith are not as distinct as she once might have believed.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429939451

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9781429939454

California Impressionists

By: Susan Landauer,Georgia Museum of Art,Irvine Museum,Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games

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California Impressionists

By: Susan Landauer,Georgia Museum of Art,Irvine Museum,Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games

The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California . . . This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression . . . it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase . . . The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia.

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Univ of California Press

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0915977257

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9780915977253

Great Things are Expected of Us

The Letters of Colonel C. Irvine Walker, 10th South Carolina Infantry, C.S.A.

By: Cornelius Irvine Walker

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Great Things are Expected of Us

The Letters of Colonel C. Irvine Walker, 10th South Carolina Infantry, C.S.A.

By: Cornelius Irvine Walker

This collection of letters written by Colonel C. Irvine Walker of the 10th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., to his fiance? during his service in the Civil War includes commentary on the campaigns in Tennessee and Kentucky in which his regiment participated. Among those mentioned in his letters are the battles of Chickamauga, Franklin, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Shiloh and Spring Hill in Tennessee and the Battle of Mundfordville in Kentucky. Included in this volume are postwar corrections and commentary that Walker added when he had his letters transcribed decades after the war.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572336633

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9781572336636

The Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane

By: Alex Irvine

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The Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane

By: Alex Irvine

Based on the breakout Fox TV show "Sleepy Hollow," an unprecedented look inside the mind of Revolutionary War soldier and modern-day demon slayer Ichabod Crane, one of TV's hottest new characters"--

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Crown

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055341898X

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9780553418989

Human Assessment and Cultural Factors

By: John W. Berry,S.H. Irvine

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Human Assessment and Cultural Factors

By: John W. Berry,S.H. Irvine

Against the background of NATO's Istanbul conference of 1971 (Cronbach and Drenth, 1972), the Kingston conference shows that great progress has been made by the community of cross-cultural psychologists. The progress is as much in the psychology of the investigators as in the investigations being reported. In 1971 the investigators were mostly strangers to each other. Behind their reports lay radically different field experiences, disparate research traditions, and mutually contradictory social ideals. Istanbul was not a Tower of Babel, but participants did speak past each other. Now a community exists, thanks to the meetings of NATO and the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, to flourishing journals, and the Triandis et a1. (1980) Handbook. The members tend to know each other, can anticipate how their formu lations will fallon the ears of others, and accept superficially divergent approaches as making up a collective enterprise. Ten years ago there was open conflict between those who con fronted exotic peoples with traditional tests and applied tradi tional interpretations to the responses, and the relativists who insisted that tasks, test taking, and interpretation cannot be "standardized" in the ways that matter. Today's investigators are conscious of the need to revalidate tasks carried into alien settings; they often prefer to redesign the mode of presentation and to attune the subject to test taking. They face the diffi culties squarely and recognize that even the best means of coping are only partially successful.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489921516

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9781489921512

Thread of the Spider

By: Robert R. Irvine

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Thread of the Spider

By: Robert R. Irvine

That car...belonged to a pair of bank robbers. Their names were Knute and Nora and they were almost as famous as Bonnie and Clyde during the Depression...They got killed in the Green River Massacre, but the car was never found." "There's more," Nick said. "This paper is dated more than a year before the Japanese attacked Pearl...And there's a handwritten notation at the bottom: 'If need be, we must allow the Japanese to strike the first blow in order to unite the American people for the coming war,'...initialed 'FDR.'" Nicolette Scott and her father are both archaeologists—but with differences. Professor Elliot Scott lives and breathes very early Americans, like the Anasazi. His digs are in the southwest, where the ancient peoples lived. To him, his daughter Nicky's area of concern is not to be taken seriously. Nicky goes for the culture embodied by artifacts from the twentieth century—a crashed plane from either world war is enough to send her senses tingling. So when she discovers a 1937 Packard convertible hidden in a sealed cave in the Utah desert, she is ecstatic. It's only when she begins to read through the papers hidden under a seat cushion that the thrill turns to something very like a chill. If those papers are genuine, they represent a huge find for Nick. But they also represent one of the most scandalous secrets in our country's history. Authentic or fake, they are still important to someone, as Nick learns when invisible threats start closing in, culminating in a murderous meeting under the blazing Utah sun. This is Nicolette's most suspenseful dig, and one that will keep readers gasping and pages turning.

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Blackstone Publishing

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148210220X

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9781482102208

Through No Fault of My Own

A Girl’s Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age

By: Coco Irvine

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Through No Fault of My Own

A Girl’s Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age

By: Coco Irvine

On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde “Coco” Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write—and to get into scrapes—and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: “I’m in deep trouble through no fault of my own,” her entries frequently began. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a twenty-room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a time when music, art, and women’s social status were all in a state of flux and the economy was still flying high. Coco’s diary carefully records her adventures, problems, and romances, written with a lively wit and a droll sense of humor. Whether sneaking out to a dance hall in her mother’s clothes or getting in trouble for telling an off-color joke, Coco and her escapades will captivate and delight preteen readers as well as their mothers and grandmothers. Peg Meier’s introduction describes St. Paul life in the 1920s and provides context for the privileged world that Coco inhabits, while an afterword tells what happens to Coco as an adult—and reveals surprises about some of the other characters in the diary.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452931348

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9781452931340

Human Rights, Constitutional Law and the Development of the English Legal System

Selected Essays

By: Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine Baron Irvine of Lairg

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Human Rights, Constitutional Law and the Development of the English Legal System

Selected Essays

By: Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine Baron Irvine of Lairg

The book documents Lord Irvine's lectures and articles and contributes to the debate on Human Rights, Constitutional Law and the English Legal System.

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Hart Publishing

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1841134112

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