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Feral Empire

Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World

By: Kathryn Renton

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Feral Empire

Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World

By: Kathryn Renton

Examines how horses shaped society, politics, and imperial control during the first century of conquest and colonization in Spanish America.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316515079

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9781316515075

The Life and Legacy of D. M. Renton

Pasadena and Santa Catalina Island, California 1902-1936

By: David M. Renton,Kathryn E. Renton

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The Life and Legacy of D. M. Renton

Pasadena and Santa Catalina Island, California 1902-1936

By: David M. Renton,Kathryn E. Renton

A fascinating and unique story about David M. Renton, "DM", who was a well known builder of Craftsman homes and other structures in Pasadena, CA, and who later was General Manager of Santa Catalina Island, CA. The book is set in the dynamic history of rapidly growing southern California in the period between 1902 and 1936. Santa Catalina Island was purchased by chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr. in 1919. During the succeeding years he and David Renton constructed much of what still exists on the island today including the world famous Casino, the Wrigley Mansion, the Wrigley Memorial and other important structures. In addition they dealt with silver mining, the filming of many big screen Hollywood movie productions, Catalina Pottery and Tile, 2,000 passenger steam ships, undersea garden trips, world class fishing, and much more. This is a unique riveting view of the Golden State at the beginning of the 20th Century.

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452

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1535544139

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9781535544139

The Fairfields Ancestors and Descendants

By: Kathryn Fairfield Knight

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The Fairfields Ancestors and Descendants

By: Kathryn Fairfield Knight

The story begins with the migration of ancestors John and Elizabeth Fairfield with their young son, Walter, from England to Massachusetts sometime in the 1630s. They lived lives typical of small-town pioneers of that era and at the same time laid the foundation for future descendants of the Fairfield family. Follow this historic lineage through the passages of time from the Revolutionary War to World Wars I and II, from Wenham, Massachusetts, to Minnesota and then onward to the Pacific Northwest.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514439786

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9781514439784

The Victorian Governess

By: Kathryn Hughes

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The Victorian Governess

By: Kathryn Hughes

The figure of the governess is very familiar from nineteenth-century literature. Much less is known about the governess in reality. This book is the first rounded exploration of what the life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on original diaries and a variety of previously undiscovered sources, Kathryn Hughes describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age of governesses. She examines their numbers, recruitment, teaching methods, social position and prospects. The governess provides a key to the central Victorian concept of the lady. Her education consisted of a series of accomplishments designed to attract a husband able to keep her in the style to which she had become accustomed from birth. Becoming a governess was the only acceptable way of earning money open to a lady whose family could not support her in leisure. Being paid to educate another woman's children set in play a series of social and emotional tensions. The governess was a surrogate mother, who was herself childless, a young woman whose marriage prospects were restricted, and a family member who was sometimes mistaken for a servant.

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288

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A&C Black

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1852853255

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9781852853259

Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

By: Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt

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Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

By: Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt

Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the judicial system in Britain. This book explores these changes and explains the rationale for purpose-built criminal lunatic asylums in the Victorian era.Specific case studies are used to illustrate and describe some of the earliest patients at Broadmoor Hospital the Criminal Lunatic Asylum for England and Wales and the Criminal Lunatic Department at Perth Prison in Scotland. Chapters examine the mental and social problems that led to crime alongside individuals considered to be weak-minded, imbeciles or idiots. Family murders are explored as well as individuals who killed for gain. An examination of psychiatric evidence is provided to illustrate how often an insanity defence was used in court and the outcome if the judge and jury did not believe these claims. Two cases are discussed where medical experts gave evidence that individuals were mentally irresponsible for their crimes but they were led to the gallows.Written by genealogists and historians, this book examines and identifies individuals who committed heinous crimes and researches the impact crime had on themselves, their families and their victims.

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255

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Pen and Sword

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1526734567

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9781526734563

Public Health for Children

By: Kathryn Kuehenie

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Public Health for Children

By: Kathryn Kuehenie

This re-titled new edition of Public Health Practice and the School-age Population has been updated and expanded to include children of all ages. Following radical changes in public health provision, Public Health for Children, Second Edition examines the implications for children and young adults as well as for those who provide care, prevention, and health promotion services. It also explores the challenges of these significant structural and functional changes. Chapters are written by experts in the field and take a practical approach in order to support learning and teaching.

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CRC Press

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1482227517

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9781482227512

Dickens and the 1830s

By: Kathryn Chittick

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Dickens and the 1830s

By: Kathryn Chittick

Kathryn Chittick examines the early career of Charles Dickens in light of the movements in literary criticism and the rise of the novel and Victorian literary canon.

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226

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Cambridge University Press

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0521381746

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9780521381741

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

By: Kathryn Fenton

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Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

By: Kathryn Fenton

On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini’s seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the Metropolitan Opera Company’s first world premiere by any composer. By all accounts, the premiere was an unambiguous success and the event itself recognized as a major moment in New York cultural history. The initial public opinion matched Puccini’s own evaluation of his opera. He called it "the best he had ever written" and expected it to become as popular as La Bohème. Yet the music reviews tell a different story. Marked by ambivalence, the reviews expose the New York City critics’ struggle to reconcile the opera they expected to see with the one they actually saw, and the opera itself became embroiled in controversy over the essence of musical Americanness and the nativist perception that a uniquely American national opera tradition continued to elude both American- and foreign-born opera composers. This book seeks to account for the differences between Puccini’s own assessments of the opera and those of its first audience. Offering transcriptions of the central reviews and of letters unavailable elsewhere, the book provides a historically informed understanding of La fanciulla del West and the reception of this European work as it intersected with both opera production and consumption in the United States and with the process of American musical identity formation during the very period that Americans actively sought to eradicate European cultural influences. As such, it offers a window into the development of nativism and "cosmopolitan nationalism" in New York City’s musical life during the first decade of the twentieth century.

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301

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Routledge

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1351594877

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9781351594875

Plutopia

Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

By: Kate Brown,Kathryn L. Brown

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Plutopia

Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

By: Kate Brown,Kathryn L. Brown

While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. She draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia--the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias--communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Plutopia was successful because in its zoned-off isolation it appeared to deliver the promises of the American dream and Soviet communism; in reality, it concealed disasters that remain highly unstable and threatening today.

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417

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Oxford University Press

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0190233109

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9780190233105

The Fawcetts of Sackville

By: Kathryn Fawcett Lewis

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The Fawcetts of Sackville

By: Kathryn Fawcett Lewis

In 1774 three Fawcett brothers, William, Robert and John (1744-1830) emigrated from Yorkshire, England and settled in New Bruswick, Canada. Their parents are believed to be Robert Fawcett and Alice Ayer of Hovingham, Yorkshire. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Michigan and Wisconsin. .

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Gagetown, N.B. : Otnabog Editions

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0968599923

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9780968599921

The Decisive Writer

By: Kathryn Rosser Raign

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The Decisive Writer

By: Kathryn Rosser Raign

The Instructor's Edition includes a visual preface and a Resource Integration Guide, showing instructors how to integrate print and media supplements in to the course.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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1413011160

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9781413011166

Jobs 98

From Entry Level to Executive Positions Leads on More than 40 Million Jobs

By: Ross Petras,George Petras,Kathryn Petras

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Jobs 98

From Entry Level to Executive Positions Leads on More than 40 Million Jobs

By: Ross Petras,George Petras,Kathryn Petras

Jobs '98 is your ticket to today's changing job market, with up-to-date and comprehensive information on: The most exciting new opportunities, from on-line journalism to financial consulting to jobs abroad in Eastern Europe and Asia The hottest cities and regions in the country with the best job opportunities The top companies in every industry The best job-hunting tools and leads available on-line—and how to use them The real lowdown on salaries, working conditions, and outlook "Best bet" companies with strong employment prospects, unique opportunities, or great chances for advancement What the future holds—business by business, region by region, career by career Whether you're hunting for your first job out of college, turning over a new leaf and switching careers, looking to move up in your current field, or assessing the ever-evolving job market, this is the ultimate resource. In these pages you'll find all the best positions, the best salaries, and the best opportunities in every area, plus the trends to be on the lookout for. Designed to make your job search as quick, effective, and enlightening as possible, Jobs '98 puts a wealth of timely and specific job leads at your fingertips. Everything you need is here.

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692

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Touchstone

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0684818264

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9780684818269

Jobs '97

By: Kathryn Petras

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Jobs '97

By: Kathryn Petras

Career opportunities, job descriptions, salary levels, and growth potential are among the factors considered in Jobs '97. With specific information for disabled workers, minorities, and women, Jobs '97 will be welcomed by everyone from entry-level workers to executivies.

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708

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Simon & Schuster

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0684818256

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9780684818252

CILIP 2003-2004

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

By: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Great Britain),Kathryn Beecroft

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CILIP 2003-2004

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

By: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Great Britain),Kathryn Beecroft

Formed from the unification of the Institute of Information Scientists and the Library Association, CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals represents the largest professional body of librarians and information professionals in the UK. Its mission is to provide the membership organization needed by the library and information profession in the 21st century. This yearbook provides a guide to the new organization.

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1856044769

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9781856044769

Feral Empire

Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World

By: Kathryn Renton

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Feral Empire

Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World

By: Kathryn Renton

By tracing the dramatic spread of horses throughout the Americas, Feral Empire explores how horses shaped society and politics during the first century of Spanish conquest and colonization. It defines a culture of the horse in medieval and early modern Spain which, when introduced to the New World, left its imprint in colonial hierarchies and power structures. Horse populations, growing rapidly through intentional and uncontrolled breeding, served as engines of both social exclusion and mobility across the Iberian World. This growth undermined colonial ideals of domestication, purity, and breed in Spain's expanding empire. Drawing on extensive research across Latin America and Spain, Kathryn Renton offers an intimate look at animals and their role in the formation of empires. Iberian colonialism in the Americas cannot be explained without understanding human-equine relationships and the centrality of colonialism to human-equine relationships in the early modern world. This title is part of the Flip it Open Program and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009089854

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9781009089852

Kathryn

By: Kathryn Miller

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Kathryn

By: Kathryn Miller

Account of her misadventures with medical and psychological services by a New Zealand woman sexually abused in childhood.

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0959774106

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Book's by Kathryn Renton

Feral Empire

Feral Empire

The Life and Legacy of D. M. Renton

The Life and Legacy of D. M. Renton

The Fairfields Ancestors and Descendants

The Fairfields Ancestors and Descendants

The Victorian Governess

The Victorian Governess

Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Public Health for Children

Public Health for Children

Dickens and the 1830s

Dickens and the 1830s

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

Plutopia

Plutopia

The Fawcetts of Sackville

The Fawcetts of Sackville

The Decisive Writer

The Decisive Writer

Jobs 98

Jobs 98

Jobs '97

Jobs '97

CILIP 2003-2004

CILIP 2003-2004

Feral Empire

Feral Empire

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