The American State Normal School
The American State Normal School

Author: C. Ogren

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-04-30

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1403979103

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The American State Normal School is the first comprehensive history of the state normal schools in the United States. Although nearly two-hundred state colleges and regional universities throughout the U.S. began as 'normal' schools, the institutions themselves have buried their history, and scholars have largely overlooked them. As these institutions later became state colleges and/or regional universities, they distanced themselves from the low status of elementary-literally erasing physical evidence of their normal-school past. In doing so, they buried the rich history of generations of students for whom attending normal school was an enriching, and sometimes life-changing experience. Focusing on these students, the first wave of 'non-traditional' students in higher education, The American State Normal School is a much-needed re-examination of the state normal school.This book was subject of an annual History of Education Society panel for best new books in the field.

The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000
The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000

Author: Todd M. Endelman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002-03

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780520227200

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A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray Ritchie

Author: Anne Thackeray Ritchie

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0814206387

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Peopled with literary figures such as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864-65 and 1878, an ample selection of her most interesting letters and a number of significant letters written to her. Because only a third of each journal has been previously published, this collection presents a valuable document of Ritchie's inner life, especially the account of her response to her father's death.

Dark and Hurrying Days
Dark and Hurrying Days

Author: Robert Menzies

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0642192855

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Dark and Hurrying Days is the text of a diary kept by Robert Menzies, then Prime Minister of Australia, of his experiences during a wartime trip to England in 1941. It was a grim time when British cities were enduring heavy bombing and German invasion seemed imminent. Menzies' Diary reveals the shifting feelings and fears which these experiences engendered in him, and is of prime importance in capturing the brooding spirit of this grim time.

The British in Argentina
The British in Argentina

Author: David Rock

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 3319978551

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Drawing on largely unexplored nineteenth- and twentieth-century sources, this book offers an in-depth study of Britain’s presence in Argentina. Its subjects include the nineteenth-century rise of British trade, merchants and explorers, of investment and railways, and of British imperialism. Spanning the period from the Napoleonic Wars until the end of the twentieth century, it provides a comprehensive history of the unique British community in Argentina. Later sections examine the decline of British influence in Argentina from World War I into the early 1950s. Finally, the book traces links between British multinationals and the political breakdown in Argentina of the 1970s and early 1980s, leading into dictatorship and the Falklands War. Combining economic, social and political history, this extensive volume offers new insights into both the historical development of Argentina and of British interests overseas.