LIBROS DEL AUTOR: katherine h adams

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  • The Rankins of Montana
    Katherine H Adams / Katherine H. Adams
    This is the story of the Rankins, a family that embodied the risk and ambition that transformed America. John Rankin arrived in the West chasing the adventure of gold mining but soon turned to ranching and building in the new town of Missoula. There he met Olive Pickering, who had left New Hampshire in 1878 to become a teacher and seek a husband on the American frontier. ...
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    64,84 €

  • Claiming Her Place in Congress
    Katherine H. Adams
     The fall of 2018 saw an unprecedented number of women elected to Congress, changing estimates of how long it might take to achieve equal representation. For the first time, women candidates used techniques honed by America’s political families, which have helped women enter politics since 1916. Drawing on extensive research and conversations with successful women politician...
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    57,39 €

  • Women, Art and the New Deal
    Katherine H. Adams / Michael L. Keene
    In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry Hopkin...
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    58,56 €

  • Winifred Black/Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction
    Katherine H. Adams / Michael L. Keene
    Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers--especially the San Francisco Examiner--and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books, a nonfiction oeuvre that combined quasi-autobiographical details with chara...
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    57,50 €

  • Seeing the American Woman, 1880-1920
    Jennifer C. Koella / Katherine H. Adams / Michael L. Keene
    From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the Pacific Railroad. Women, especially young and beautiful ones, found new lives shaped by their participation in that visual culture. This rapidly evolving age left behind the 'cult of domesticity' that reigned in the nineteenth century to give rise to...
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    57,40 €

  • After the Vote Was Won
    Katherine H. Adams / Michael L. Keene
    Because scholars have traditionally examined the efforts of American suffragists only in relation to electoral politics, the history books have largely missed the real story of what these women achieved far outside the realm of voting reform. Though Stanton, Anthony, and Mott are the best known figures of the woman’s suffrage movement, all were dead more than a decade before...
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    42,93 €