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- The women's history of the modern world : how radicals, rebels, and everywomen revolutionized the last 200 years / by Miles, Rosalind,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Now is the time for a new women's history--for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due--from the Enlightenment to the #MeToo movement. Recording the important milestones in the birth of the modern feminist movement and the rise of women into greater social, economic, and political power, Miles takes us through through a colorful pageant of astonishing women, from heads of state like Empress Cixi, Eugenia Charles, Indira Gandhi, Jacinda Ardern, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to political rainmakers Kate Sheppard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Stout, Dorothy Height, Shirley Chisholm, Winnie Mandela, STEM powerhouses Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Rosalind Franklin, Sophia Kovalevskaya, Marie Curie, and Ada Lovelace, revolutionaries Olympe de Gouges, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Patyegarang, and writer/intellectuals Mary Wollstonecraft, Simon de Beauvoir, Elaine Morgan, and Germaine Greer. Women in the arts, women in sports, women in business, women in religion, women in politics--this is a one-stop roundup of the tremendous progress women have made in the modern era. A testimony to how women have persisted--and excelled--this is a smart and stylish popular history for all readers.- Subjects: Women revolutionaries; Women revolutionaries; Women; Women; Women; Women;
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- The feud : the Hatfields & McCoys, the true story / by King, Dean.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-418) and index.LSC- Subjects: Hatfield-McCoy Feud.; Vendetta; Vendetta;
- © 2013., Little, Brown and Company,
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- The Victorians : English literature in its historical, cultural and social contexts / by Cruttenden, Aidan;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 94), Internet addresses and index.- Subjects: English literature; Literature and history; Authors, English;
- © c2003., Facts on File,
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- Tread of angels / by Roanhorse, Rebecca,author.;
In the 1883 Colorado mining town of Goetia ruled by the Virtues, the winners of an ancient war against the Fallen, descendants of demonkind living among them, Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of devil's advocate to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue.- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Sisters;
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- The untouchable earl / by Sandas, Amy.;
"He's a reclusive earl with a painful secret that's kept him from knowing a lover's touch. She's a sheltered debutante tired of living by society's rules. But when she's forced from the ballroom to the brothel, Lily discovers the dark thrill of falling from grace--and into the arms of a man who could destroy her as easily as he saved her"--from www.Amazon.com.LSC- Subjects: Love stories.; Regency fiction.; Nobility; Prostitution;
- © [2016], Sourcebooks Casablanca,
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- 1883. [videorecording] / by Elliott, Sam,1944-actor.; Garrett, LaMonica,actor.; Hanks, Tom,actor.; Hill, Faith,1967-actor.; McGraw, Tim,actor.; Thornton, Billy Bob,actor.; Wilson, Rita,actor.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher.;
Sam Elliott, Faith Hill, Tim Mcgraw, Lamonica Garrett, Billy Bob Thornton, Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks.From visionary creator Taylor Sheridan comes a prequel to television's number one show, Yellowstone. It follows the original Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It's a stark retelling of Western expansion and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land, Montana.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Historical television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Western television programs.; Families; Frontier and pioneer life; Pioneers;
- For private home use only.
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- The real Jane Austen : a life in small things / by Byrne, Paula.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A revealing portrait of the beloved novelist, drawn from the most up-to-date scholarship and unexplored sources, presents a modern take on the woman and the world that shaped her.- Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.; Novelists, English; Women novelists, English;
- © c2013., Harper,
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- The romantic revolution / by Blanning, T. C. W.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Romanticism;
- © c2010., Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
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- Mississauga portraits : Ojibwe voices from nineteenth-century Canada / by Smith, Donald B.,1946-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Mississauga Portraits recreates the lives of eight Ojibwe who lived during the early and mid-nineteenth-century on the north of Lake Ontario. These are historically important and interesting figures, most of whom have never before received full biographical treatment. Each portrait is based on research drawn from an extensive collection of writings and recorded speeches by southern Ontario Ojibwe themselves, along with secondary sources. It is a sequel to Smith<U+2019>s immensely popular Sacred Feathers. LSC- Subjects: Missisauga Indians; Missisauga Indians; Methodists; Methodists;
- © [2013], University of Toronto Press,
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- Modern art, 1851-1929 : capitalism and representation / by Brettell, Richard R.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Art, Modern; Art, Modern;
- © c1999., University,
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