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Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
Diane Atkinson · Bloomsbury Publishing Pages: 688 Format: Hardcover
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Almost one hundred years ago, British women led a hard-fought campaign to gain the right to vote--and this is their story.Britain's women's suffrage campaign began in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth century ushered in a more militant campaign. On June 30, 1908, two schoolteachers... |
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
STEVEN STOLL · Hill and Wang Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia -- among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America -- has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
DEBORAH CADBURY · PublicAffairs Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them into... |
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
Penny Junor · Harper Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded" - esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled... |
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Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas
Alison Macor · University of Texas Press Pages: 359 Format: eBook
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Winner, Peter C. Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2011During the 1990s, Austin achieved "overnight" success and celebrity as a vital place for independent filmmaking. Directors Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez... |
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
Doug Bradley · University of Massachusetts Press Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." For a "tunnel rat" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's "Purple... |
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