Ordering Life explores the career of this prominent figure as he worked to ensure a continued role for natural history museums and the field of taxonomy in the rapidly changing world of twentieth-century science
The impact of surprisingly varied local attitudes towards widows and their childrenWidows and Orphans First investigates the importance of local economies and values in the origins of the welfare state through an exploration of widows' lives in three industrial American cities with widely differing economic
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washed up on an Italian beach and Odysseus is the archetypal migrant reimagined as a late night mini-cab driver
Logan ultimately concludes that while the selection of an individual African American man as president does not mean that racism is dead in the contemporary United States
Spirits of Just Men Vonda Norman Ordering Life explores the careerSpirits of Just Men tells the story of moonshine in 1930s America, as seen through the remarkable location of Franklin County, Virginia, a place that many still refer to as the ''moonshine capital of the world.'' Local characters come alive through this richly colourful chronicle of the Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935, which made national news and exposed the far reaching and pervasive tendrils of Appalachia's local moonshine economy. Charles