Katherine: 2489 books
by Katherine Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Based on the wartime diaries of Allied soldier and saboteur Tom Barnes, this account of thrilling WWII wartime deeds deep behind enemy lines in Greece is based on fact but reads like fiction.
A thrilling read of wartime exploits, daring, intrigue and resourcefulness, The Sabotage Diaries is...
Inventing the Immigration Problem
The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts—women and men trained in the new field of social science—fanned out across the country to collect data...
Censored
A Literary History of Subversion and Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Émile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola’s French candour about sex – it was that Vizetelly’s books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them. Censored exposes the role that power plays in censorship. In...
Forensic Medicine in Western Society
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative perspective...
My Life as a Spy
Investigations in a Secret Police File
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several...
Disknowledge
Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
"Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance...
Thanksgiving: Heart-Warming Stories for Children
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner, The Queer Little Baker Man, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Thanksgiving of the Wazir, A Turkey for the Stuffing...
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This carefully selected and edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) An English...
by Katherine Bloxam
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Three short stories of three different women, who overcome the bad situations they are forced into, and become stronger for it. Kiki is a telephone operator. Sarah is a young pioneer woman. Cynthia is a flight attendant.
Nanny Knows Best
The History of the British Nanny
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From the popular Mary Poppins to the controversial Supernanny, the history of the British Nanny is revealed through fascinating personal storiesNot quite part of the family and definitely an employee; idealized or demonized, the nanny has had a difficult role in family life over the past 200 years....
She Hath Been Reading
Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the late nineteenth century hundreds of clubs formed across the United States devoted to the reading of Shakespeare. From Pasadena, California, to the seaside town of Camden, Maine; from the isolated farm town of Ottumwa, Iowa, to Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf coast, Americans were reading Shakespeare...
The Good Women of the Parish
Gender and Religion After the Black Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women's behavior for particular censure. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly connected good behavior...
The Ex-suicide
A Mountain Brook Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The Ex-Suicide, Katherine Clark’s fourth Mountain Brook novel, is a satirical comedy of manners about a prominent Alabama family living across the street from the Birmingham Country Club. The house happens to be where the writer Walker Percy lived as a child with his family until his father committed...
Arguing Sainthood
Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1997
In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to critically reinterpret theories...
by Katherine Binhammer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Eighteenth-century literature displays a fascination with the seduction of a virtuous young heroine, most famously illustrated by Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and repeated in 1790s radical women's novels, in the many memoirs by fictional or real penitent prostitutes, and in street print. Across fiction,...