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City of American Dreams

A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

By: Margaret Garb

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City of American Dreams

A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

By: Margaret Garb

In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing visions of capitalists, reformers, and immigrants turned the urban landscape into a testing ground for American values. Neither a natural progression nor an inevitable outcome, the ideal of home ownership emerged from the struggles of industrializing cities. Garb skillfully narrates these struggles, showing how the American infatuation with home ownership left the nation's cities sharply divided along class and racial lines. Based on research of real estate markets, housing and health reform, and ordinary homeowners—African American and white, affluent and working class—City of American Dreams provides a richly detailed picture of life in one of America's great urban centers. Garb shows that the pursuit of a single-family house set on a tidy yard, commonly seen as the very essence of the American dream, resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226282090

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9780226282091

A Play of Lords

By: Margaret Frazer

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A Play of Lords

By: Margaret Frazer

Joliffe and company play spies amongst the British aristocracy as lords and clergymen vie for the coveted position of regent to the young King Henry VI. But when men who know too much begin to die in violent ways, the players start to fear for their own lives.

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308

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Penguin

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0425216683

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9780425216682

Plain Women

Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren

By: Margaret C. Reynolds,Simon J. Bronner

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Plain Women

Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren

By: Margaret C. Reynolds,Simon J. Bronner

Despite the great interest in &"plain&" groups in recent years, comparatively little has been written about women and the particular role they play in preserving traditional religious and cultural values in the modern world. In Plain Women, Margaret C. Reynolds portrays the women of the Old Order River Brethren, a significant branch of the Brethren in Christ located mainly in Pennsylvania. The members of this conservative offshoot of the Brethren are often confused with the Amish because of their plain attire, but, unlike the Amish, they have made some notable concessions to the modern world&—including the use of automobiles, computers, and home appliances. Noting these accommodations to modern American life, Reynolds examines the ceremonies and traditions that allow the Old Order River Brethren to remain &"separate&" from other plain groups and from contemporary mass culture. She describes, for example, the love feast communion, a service that involves footwashing and a breadmaking ritual (one unique to the Old Order River Brethren and solely performed by women). Reynolds focuses in particular on the gendered customs of dress, hair, and domesticity that shape women&’s lives and, in so doing, preserve the minority faith itself. Plain Women is the first volume in the new Pennsylvania German History and Culture Series, published in cooperation with the Pennsylvania German Society. This series is a continuation of the Society&’s annual volumes on Pennsylvania German scholarship in disciplines such as history, religion, folklore, literature, and arts.

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210

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Penn State Press

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0271021381

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9780271021386

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

An Encyclopedia

By: Margaret Schaus

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Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

An Encyclopedia

By: Margaret Schaus

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Taylor & Francis

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0415969441

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A Play of Isaac

By: Margaret Frazer

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A Play of Isaac

By: Margaret Frazer

When his band of traveling players are taken in by a patron, Joliffe and company find that murder has taken their place in the spotlight--and it's up to them to catch a killer in the act.

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Penguin

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0425197514

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Lectio Matters

Before the Burning Bush

By: Mary Margaret Funk

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Lectio Matters

Before the Burning Bush

By: Mary Margaret Funk

Lectio divina is a way of praying by sustained immersion into a revelatory text. While Scripture is the classic place of encounter with God, the text could also be the book of life or the book of nature. InLectio Matters, respected spiritual guide Meg Funk accompanies the reader in exploring the various levels of lectio divina as taught by the ancient church writers and by sharing her own long experience. By means of this wisdom both ancient and new, lectio divina can become our burning bush, a real encounter with the living God, in which we take off our sandals and bow our brow to the ground.

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Liturgical Press

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0814635059

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9780814635056

Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC

A Study in Cultural Receptivity

By: Margaret C. Miller

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Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC

A Study in Cultural Receptivity

By: Margaret C. Miller

First comprehensive collection of evidence of the relations between Athens and Persia in fifth century BC.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521607582

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9780521607582

Unruly Women

Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain

By: Margaret E. Boyle

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Unruly Women

Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain

By: Margaret E. Boyle

In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage. Pairing historical narratives and archival records with canonical and non-canonical theatrical representations of women's deviance and rehabilitation, Unruly Women argues that women's performances of penitence and punishment should be considered a significant factor in early modern Spanish life. Boyle considers both real-life sites of rehabilitation for women in seventeenth-century Madrid, including a jail and a magdalen house, and women onstage, where she identifies three distinct representations of female deviance: the widow, the vixen, and the murderess. Unruly Women explores these archetypal figures in order to demonstrate the ways a variety of playwrights comment on women's non-normative relationships to the topics of marriage, sex, and violence.

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182

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University of Toronto Press

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1442646152

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9781442646155

Fashion and Clothing

By: Margaux Baum,Margaret Scott

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Fashion and Clothing

By: Margaux Baum,Margaret Scott

If it is clothes that make the man or woman, each historical era can speak volumes to modern observers with its dominant fashions and clothing trends. This book provides a vivid journey into the fabrics used by medieval peoples, the textile trade, tailoring, and the ever more outrageous and interesting garb worn by women and men of the nobility. Stitched together with their social and historical context, this title weaves a compelling narrative for both fans of fashion and history alike. The colorfully rendered historical record is further enhanced with paintings, frescoes, and other visual media depicting medieval fashions and clothing.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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149946469X

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9781499464696

101 Lessons: Vocabulary Words in Context

By: Margaret Brinton

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101 Lessons: Vocabulary Words in Context

By: Margaret Brinton

Standards-based lessons show how vocabulary words presented in context help students learn how to use them accurately in their speech and writing.

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1420681435

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9781420681437

A Country of Ghosts

By: Margaret Killjoy

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A Country of Ghosts

By: Margaret Killjoy

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life. A Country of Ghosts is a novel of utopia besieged and a tale that challenges every premise of contemporary society.

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166

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AK Press

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1849354499

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Delphi Collected Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

By: Margaret Oliphant

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Delphi Collected Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

By: Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant achieved fame during the Victorian era for her masterpieces of domestic realism, historical novels and spellbinding tales of the supernatural. This eBook presents a comprehensive range of Oliphant’s works, with the complete Chronicles of Carlingford, the complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen, numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Oliphant’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 79 novels, with individual contents tables * Rare novels available in no other collection, including Oliphant’s first novels MARGARET MAITLAND and CHRISTIAN MELVILLE * Rare supernatural novels appearing in digital publishing for the first time: DIES IRAE and THE LADY’S WALK * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete ‘Chronicles of Carlingford’ series, inspired by Trollope’s Barsetshire books, with special index and links – includes the very rare short story ‘The Executor’ * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Features the complete Stories and Novels of the Seen and Unseen – first time in digital print * Includes a selection of Oliphant’s non-fiction * Features a bonus biography * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with 60 more books – including 56 novels, 2 short story collections, 1 non-fiction work and an autobiography CONTENTS: The Chronicles of Carlingford Stories of the Seen and Unseen The Novels Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland (1849) Merkland (1850) The Quiet Heart (1854) Christian Melville (1855) The Athelings (1857) The Days of My Life (1857) The Laird of Norlaw (1858) The House on the Moor (1861) The Doctor’s Family (1861) The Last of the Mortimers (1862) Salem Chapel (1862) Heart and Cross (1863) The Perpetual Curate (1863) A Son of the Soil (1865) Miss Marjoribanks (1865) Madonna Mary (1867) Brownlows (1868) The Minister’s Wife (1869) The Three Brothers (1870) John (1870) Squire Arden (1871) Ombra (1872) At His Gates (1872) May (1873) A Rose in June (1874) For Love and Life (1874) Whiteladies (1875) The Story of Valentine and His Brother (1875) The Curate in Charge (1876) Phoebe, Junior (1876) Mrs. Arthur (1877) Young Musgrave (1877) The Primrose Path (1878) A Beleaguered City (1879) Within the Precincts (1879) He That Will Not When He May (1880) The Greatest Heiress in England (1880) Harry Joscelyn (1881) In Trust (1881) The Ladies Lindores (1883) The Lady’s Walk (1883) Sir Tom (1883) Hester (1883) It was a Lover and His Lass (1883) Madam (1884) The Wizard’s Son (1884) Old Lady Mary (1884) The Prodigals and Their Inheritance (1885) Oliver’s Bride (1886) Effie Ogilvie (1886) The Son of His Father (1886) A Poor Gentleman (1886) A House Divided Against Itself (1886) A Country Gentleman and His Family (1886) Joyce (1888) Cousin Mary (1888) Lady Car (1889) The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow (1890) Sons and Daughters (1890) The Duke’s Daughter (1890) Kirsteen (1890) The Fugitives (1890) The Railway Man and His Children (1891) The Story of a Governess (1891) The Heir Presumptive and the Heir (1891) The Marriage of Elinor (1891) The Cuckoo in the Nest (1892) Diana Trelawny (1892) The Sorceress (1893) A House in Bloomsbury (1894) Lady William (1894) Who Was Lost and Is Found (1894) Sir Robert’s Fortune (1894) Old Mr. Tredgold (1895) Two Strangers (1895) Dies Irae (1895) The Unjust Steward (1896) The Two Marys (1896) The Ways of Life (1897) The Shorter Fiction The Executor (1861) The Rector (1861) The Land of Darkness (1888) Neighbours on the Green (1889) A Widow’s Tale and Other Stories (1898) Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Royal Edinburgh (1890) Historical Characters in the Reign of Queen Anne (1894) The Makers of Modern Rome (1895) Jeanne d’Arc (1896) The Sisters Brontë (1897) The Autobiography The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant (1899) The Biography Margaret Oliphant (1901) by Richard Garnett

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Delphi Classics

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1910630829

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9781910630822

Dwellers in Crucbl

By: Margaret Wander Bonanno,Bonnano

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Dwellers in Crucbl

By: Margaret Wander Bonanno,Bonnano

The Romulans kidnapped six Warrantors, hostages for peace from their native worlds, to incite political chaos and civil war within the Federation. Sulu is sent to find the hostages and bring them back alive.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671660888

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9780671660888

Thank You, Master

Direct Disciples Remember Paramhansa Yogananda

By: Hare Krishna Ghosh,Smriti Meera Ghosh,Margaret Bowman Deitz

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Direct Disciples Remember Paramhansa Yogananda

By: Hare Krishna Ghosh,Smriti Meera Ghosh,Margaret Bowman Deitz

Thank You, Master Anyone who has read and loved Autobiography of a Yogiwill be delighted to find this treasure of personal experiences and heartfelt remembrances of Paramhansa Yogananda by three of his direct disciples. Stories from Yogananda's family members, Hare Krishna Ghosh and Meera Ghosh, who became disciples as teenagers, take the reader on pilgrimage to India to the sacred places and miraculous moments shared with this great yogi. The stories of Peggy Deitz transport one to Yogananda's ashram in California and his time living with devotees in America. These accounts, whether humorous or miraculous, casual or divine, bring to life the experience of being in Yogananda's presence. They give insight into the profound love with which he guided each individual. Yogananda was not only one of the greatest yoga masters of our time. He was an avatar: an incarnation of the Divine. Firsthand experiences from close disciples are a true gift that can help us tune in to his vast nature. At the same time these delightful stories will touch your heart and uplift your spirit.

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Crystal Clarity Publishers

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1565895991

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9781565895997

Freedom's Ballot

African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration

By: Margaret Garb

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Freedom's Ballot

African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration

By: Margaret Garb

In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city’s first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, De Priest’s victory was astonishing. It did not, however, surprise the unruly group of black activists who had been working for several decades to win representation on the city council. Freedom’s Ballot is the history of three generations of African American activists—the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs—who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. This is a complex and important story of how black political power was institutionalized in Chicago in the half-century following the Civil War. Margaret Garb explores the social and political fabric of Chicago, revealing how the physical makeup of the city was shaped by both political corruption and racial empowerment—in ways that can still be seen and felt today.

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University of Chicago Press

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022613606X

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Book's by Margaret Garb

City of American Dreams

City of American Dreams

A Play of Lords

A Play of Lords

Plain Women

Plain Women

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

A Play of Isaac

A Play of Isaac

Lectio Matters

Lectio Matters

Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC

Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC

Unruly Women

Unruly Women

Fashion and Clothing

Fashion and Clothing

101 Lessons: Vocabulary Words in Context

101 Lessons: Vocabulary Words in Context

A Country of Ghosts

A Country of Ghosts

Delphi Collected Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Delphi Collected Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Dwellers in Crucbl

Dwellers in Crucbl

Thank You, Master

Thank You, Master

Freedom's Ballot

Freedom's Ballot

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