Women In George Washington S World

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George Washington lived in an age of revolutions, during which he faced political upheaval, war, economic change, and social shifts. These revolutions affected American women in profound ways, and the women Washington knew—personally, professionally, and politically—lived lives that reveal these multifaceted transformations. Although Washington often operated in male-dominated arenas, he participated in complex and meaningful relationships with women from across society. A lively and accessibly written volume, Women in George Washington’s World highlights some of the women—Black and white, free and enslaved—whom Washington knew. Women who admired and memorialized him, women who provided him love and solace, women who frustrated him, and women who worked for or against him—all of these women are chronicled through their own experiences and identities. The essays, written by established and emerging historians of gender, reveal the lives of a diverse group of women, including plantation mistresses and enslaved workers, Loyalists and Patriots, poets and socialites, as well as mothers, wives, and sisters. Collectively, women emerge as strong actors during the American Revolution and its aftermath, not merely passive spectators or occasional participants. Although usually not on battlefields or in government offices, women made choices and acted in ways that affected their own, their families’, and sometimes even the nation’s future. Contributors:James Basker, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History * George W. Boudreau, The McNeil Center * Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, Kalamazoo College * Ann Bay Goddin, independent scholar * Sara Georgini, Massachusetts Historical Society * Kate Haulman, American University * Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University * Lynn Price Robbins, independent scholar * Samantha Snyder, George Washington’s Mount Vernon * Mary V. Thompson, George Washington’s Mount Vernon

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Genre : History
Author : Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Release : 2022-07-27
File : 352 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780813947457


American Education

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Genre : Education
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Release : 1966
File : 326 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89098054190


Public Papers Of The Presidents Of The United States

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Genre : Presidents
Author : United States. President
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Release : 1979
File : 150 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCR:31210013215783


The Sage Handbook Of Human Rights

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The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights will comprise a two volume set consisting of more than 50 original chapters that clarify and analyze human rights issues of both contemporary and future importance. The Handbook will take an inter-disciplinary approach, combining work in such traditional fields as law, political science and philosophy with such non-traditional subjects as climate change, demography, economics, geography, urban studies, mass communication, and business and marketing. In addition, one of the aspects of mainstreaming is the manner in which human rights has come to play a prominent role in popular culture, and there will be a section on human rights in art, film, music and literature. Not only will the Handbook provide a state of the art analysis of the discipline that addresses the history and development of human rights standards and its movements, mechanisms and institutions, but it will seek to go beyond this and produce a book that will help lead to prospective thinking.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Anja Mihr
Publisher : SAGE
Release : 2014-07-21
File : 1127 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781473907195


Sbi Apprentice Guide 2021

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1. Complete Guide of SBI Apprentices Online Written Test is a complete study guide 2. The guide is divided into sections 3. This book facilitate Chapterwise preparation 4. Solved Paper 2019 & Model Solved Paper for practice 5. Ample numbers of Questions are given for practice. The state bank of India began the application process for the recruitment of 8500 apprentices in various zones. Introducing, the newly updated and revised edition of "Complete Guide of SBI Apprentices Online Written Test" that is prepared to give complete coverage to the syllabus. This book is divided into sections and chapters facilitating Chapterwise preparation. A separate section has been allotted to Current Affairs, covering all national and International events. Ample numbers of questions are asked in the book that includes Solved Paper 2019 and Model Solved Paper as per the latest SBI Paper Pattern for thorough practice. It is a complete package to crack SBI Apprentices paper with rankings of the participants. TABLE OF CONTENT Current Affairs, Solved Paper 2019, Model Paper, General & Financial Awareness, General English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Arihant Experts
Publisher : Arihant Publications India limited
Release : 2020-01-08
File : 454 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789325293847


American Women During World War Ii

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American Women during World War II documents the lives and stories of women who contributed directly to the war effort via official and semi-official military organizations, as well as the millions of women who worked in civilian defense industries, ranging from aircraft maintenance to munitions manufacturing and much more. It also illuminates how the war changed the lives of women in more traditional home front roles. All women had to cope with rationing of basic household goods, and most women volunteered in war-related programs. Other entries discuss institutional change, as the war affected every aspect of life, including as schools, hospitals, and even religion. American Women during World War II provides a handy one-volume collection of information and images suitable for any public or professional library.

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Genre : History
Author : Doris Weatherford
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2009-10-16
File : 552 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135201906


Material Worlds

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Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard. Interrogating individual objects as well as considering the contexts in which acts of consumption take place, a range of case studies present the intertwined issues of power, inequality, identity, and community as mediated through choice, access, and use of the diversity of mass-produced goods. Key themes of this innovative volume include the relationship between colonial, political and economic structures and the practices of consumption, the use of consumer goods in the construction and negotiation of identity, and the dialectic between strategies of consumption and individual or community choices. Situating studies of consumerism within the field of historical archaeology, this exciting collection reflects on the interrelationship between the material and ideological aspects of culture. With a focus on North America from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries, Material Worlds is an important examination of consumption which will appeal to scholars with interests in colonialism, gender and race, as well as those engaged with the material culture of the emergent modern world.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Barbara J. Heath
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-02-17
File : 445 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317327288


Activities Of The Commission And Complete Final Report Of The United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission

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Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
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Release : 1932
File : 714 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:$C22123


The Eye Of Illusion

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Eli Ginzberg, the dean of applied economics in the United States, has studied the changing contours of economic and social structures in American for over sixty years. A long-time consultant to the federal government, including the last nine presidents of the United States, his name is indelibly linked with the creation, expansion, and refinement of employment policy and human resource needs. This second volume of memoir reviews in fascinating detail the ideas, events, and personal encounters of Ginzberg's long and distinguished career and illuminates the principal influences that helped to shape his life and work. As in his previous memoir, My Brother's Keeper, which dealt with the Jewish dimension of his life, Ginzberg draws on public and personal history to provide an evocative and intellectually rich account of a tumultuous period in American policy. In the first part the author recounts his unusual family background—his father was an eminent Judaic scholar and his mother a social activist of decidedly unconventional attitudes—and probes the intellectual and emotional roots of his unbreakable ties to New York City and Columbia University. The formative inheritance of scholarship and social concern marked Ginzberg's career in the wider world of academia and government. The chapters in the second part relate his service at the Pentagon throughout World War II and much of the Cold War period, and provide candid and penetrating views of American presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan. Later chapters dealing with consultation and study missions, in the advanced and underdeveloped world, yield valuable insights into the dynamics of economic change. Ginzberg's long experience as an analyst of US corporations and foundations informs his discussion of the problems and challenges facing these institutions at the end of the twentieth century. A unique blend of autobiographical reflection and clear-sighted observation, The Eye of Illusion will be of interest to sociologists, economists, historians, and political scientists.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Eli Ginzberg
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Release : 1993-01-01
File : 350 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1412836808


First Ladies

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A biographical dictionary profiling first ladies of the United States, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Dorothy Schneider
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release : 2010
File : 449 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781438127507