The Husband Hunters

The Husband Hunters

Author: Anne de Courcy

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1250164613

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A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – the real women who inspired Downton Abbey Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known 'Dollar Princess', married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age. Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. Based on extensive first-hand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them.


The Koryak

The Koryak

Author: Waldemar Jochelson

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 886

ISBN-13: 3942883872

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Since the 18th century, researchers and scientists have traveled the peninsula of Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Many of them were of German origin and had been commissioned by the Russian government to perform specific tasks. Their exhaustive descriptions and detailed reports are still considered some of the most valuable documents on the ethnography of the indigenous peoples of that part of the world. These works inform us about living conditions and particular ways of natural resource use at various times, and provide us with valuable background information for current assessment. As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. They represented a shift of the already existing transnational research networks toward North America. Jochelson’s work The Koryak was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the North Pacific rim.


Women and Men

Women and Men

Author: Nancy Bonvillain

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-03-20

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1538114844

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The fifth edition of Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender presents a synthesis of a wide range of ethnographic and historical data concerning the roles of women, men, and gender nonconforming people in different societies. It focuses on both material conditions and ideological valuations that affect and reflect cultural models of gender. NEW TO THIS EDITION Chapter 3 includes new sections on alternative gendered identities in the Lakota of the Plains and the Navajo of the Southwest and on Yanomamo land rights. Chapter 4 contains new sections on marriage options in the Northwest Coast and on Canadian First Nations contemporary issues concerning territorial rights and the protection of lands from contamination. Chapter 6 is significantly expanded by thorough discussions of the intersectionality of gender, class, and race. Chapter 7 includes a new section on the transmigration of women from poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America to wealthier countries in the Middle East, Europe, and North America to work as nannies, cooks, and other household help, as well as other resources. Chapter 8 is significantly revised to include changes that have recently taken place to counter dominating and dominant notions of gender and sexuality. This revision contains numerous new sections along with updated economic and social statistical data pertaining to the United States and to global resources. It reframes concepts of gender and of the intersectionality of gender, class, and race as they relate to discussions throughout the book. Ethnographic studies are expanded to include contemporary material on the peoples featured in the chapters.


BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier

BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier

Author: David Kyhber Close

Publisher: BookPOD

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0992290449

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Sounding 6 begins with Bain Attwood’s thesis Blacks & Lohans and an echo titled SEX & SORROW EAST OF MELBOURNE. Then Henry Meyrick’s frontier life and death in Western Port and Gipps Land leads into Echo 93: TAMING MELBOURNE BAYSIDE & THE DANDENONGS. Turning to OPENING GIPPSLAND: elite squatters at Sale are contrasted by surviving Kooris on Jackson’s Track. The narrative then backtracks in time with Echo 95: CONTRIBUTIONS TO TRUTH ABOUT SLAUGHTER IN GIPPSLAND comprising the Porter, Cox, Fels and Gardner versions of the blood-stained land-grab. Fels then reports on the Native Police actions and Morgan’s recent overview of the Ganai before and after white settlement concludes the shameful issues long denied or excused. Echo 96: LIAR’S LUNCH charts the rise and fall of pioneer Angus McMillan MP before the focus shifts to the historical geography of East Gippsland clans and languages and on to missionary Bulmer at Lake Tyers with the stories of the payback of Hopping Kitty and Attwood’s study of Brataualung man Tarra Bobby. Alfred Howitt’s birthing of Oz anthropology with his opus The Native Tribes of South-east Australia published at the start of the 20th century is the source material of several echoes on the making of ‘clever’ men and on songs and song-makers. Sounding 6 closes with extracts reprinted from Professor Elkin’s Aboriginal Men of High Degree – their personality and ‘making’, the powers of medicine men, and in conclusion Echo 106: ABORIGINAL MEN OF HIGH DEGREE IN A CHANGING WORLD.


Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 785

ISBN-13: 1438109105

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An accessible one-volume encyclopedia, this addition to the Literary Movements series is a comprehensive reference guide to the history and development of feminist literature, from early fairy tales to works by great women writers of today. Hundred


Children of an Everlasting Heaven

Children of an Everlasting Heaven

Author: Arthur Winarczyk

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-04-27

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1483631702

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They were as different as the creatures of the land are to the creatures of the sea. They were a people in the spirit and children of their God. For over 30 years they were in the spirit with their God (in the wilderness) and learning a new way of understanding. Finally a dream came upon them. They were at a banquet. There were two long tables covered with elegant white tablecloths. One full of the food they knew and loved and with engraved candles and white dinner plates. The other table bare except for large white plates with unusual food at one end. As unusual as the food was - it was delicious. Upon awakening they worked out the dream. The food on the first table was symbolic for their existing beliefs and traditions. The other table represented a new way of life in the spirit – the Way of the Holy Spirit One outcome of this journey is new knowledge in the spirit - and in books titled The Science of Life and Dimensional Energy Physics. The Third Testament used by this Life in the Spirit group is in the Appendix. The opening words of the Third Testament are: Seek compassion not perfection Seek techniques of reconciliation Children of an Everlasting Heaven is a tale of a man and a woman destined to be eternal companions (also a gourmet feast for those curious about Life in the Spirit). Their journey begins with a chance meeting in an Australian court. An impossible coincidence presents itself – during World War II Darth’s Polish Catholic mother hid a German Jewish girl under her bed when Gestapo came hunting Jews. It becomes clear Helen is the daughter of that woman! She takes an interest in what he is doing - researching court orders organised by lawyers and used to aid “property theft” and protect child sexual abuse. That research is documented on his medical sites. (www.5glsoftware.org/sftdoc.html). On the surface such AVOs protect a person from violence. He also wants to document the medical impact on people subject to exploitation. People over 50 cannot find work because a mentality in control does not employ over 50’s. Instead, laws are in place which force such to volunteer to work with no pay. The “force” is achieved by harassment: a man with debilitating arthritis works for no pay lifting heavy furniture to avoid harassment by bureaucrats. Helen, a young Rabbi with ideal Aryan looks and a figure to die for, begins teaching her man about Life in the Spirit – a mystery passed (in the spirit) from Aaron (the first priest). It is the Promised Land or the Kingdom of Heaven. Virtual reality forms in the mind and a person learns to use mental images. Darth is the Immortal Lord and in him the Holy Spirit strong. His manner of leading his people in the spirit is to come across as a lost soul who needs guidance. Often wondering if his legal research that is identifying laws and court orders abused or used to protect child sexual abuse is more important than trying to assist his people in the spirit? Parts are romance – boy meets girl, boy dates girl, boy and girl argue, boy and girl kiss, boy and girl fall in love. In other chapters Helen locks his mind and explains mysteries. In time she is suspicious – he is linking to Life in the Spirit groups with the innocence of a dove and the cunning of a serpent – in Kaspa and Delilah (Chapter 16) using delightful cartoon imagery the little ghost is looking for his dad using maps he asks those he comes upon – Rabbi, Catholic Sister, Islamic woman with a veil, a Buddhist monk – to help him understand. Some visions are – magnificent – in a high quality 3-D panoramic vision like a majestic alien landscape formed from effervescent and shimmering vibrations of light, he looking a touch like Darth Vader of Star Wars, he flows: “While there is one child who dies from hunger or lack of care – we are at war. Jesus said his kingdom is not