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The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender ...

The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender ...

Lara Putnam

terns see Lara Putnam, ''Public Women and One-Pant Men: Labor Migration and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960'' (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2000), 432–34. 8. Of West Indian female heads of households ...
City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York

City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York

Tammy L. Brown

Scholars such as Tamara Mose Brown, Lara Putnam, Minkah Makalani, and Joyce Moore Turner use the term “Caribbean” in their work. Historian Lara Putnam uses the term “British Caribbeans” to refer to immigrants from the Englishspeaking ...
General History of the Caribbean: The long nineteenth ...

General History of the Caribbean: The long nineteenth ...

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... in Central America have had to 'negotiate their way in a society where their color and culture are liabilities'.76 This has been one of the most marked aspects of the shared historical experience that continues 72 Lara Putnam, 2002, p.63.
Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, ...

Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, ...

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For relevant discussions of research design not explicitly linked to the term “ transnational,” see Rebecca Scott, “Small-Scale Dynamics of Large-Scale Processes,” 472–479; and Lara Putnam, “To Study the Fragments/Whole: Microhistory and ...
Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism

Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism

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Interestingly, wherever they worked, they would assert their rights as British subjects in the face of discrimination and exploitation, and, as Lara Putnam shows, when the British failed to defend those rights, they crafted a new pan- African and ...
Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis

Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis

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LARA PUTNAM In the decades after the First World War, European and EuroAmerican dominion reached maximum geographic spread – and scientific racism reached maximum stridency in efforts to justify it. Yet the legitimacy of global white ...
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: A Triptych

Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: A Triptych

Lynn Stegner

... the porch I turned back and asked Gladys if she had ever heard of a Lara Casey. Because maybe Lara Casey could persuade him. "Lara Greenfield, you must mean." "Greenfield?" "Well, shore, been married twenty-five, maybe thirty years.
Caribbean Military Encounters

Caribbean Military Encounters

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Shalini Puri, Lara Putnam. Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “The Caribbean Region: An Open Frontier in Anthropological Theory.” Annual Review of Anthropology 21, no. 1 (1992): 19–42. Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Haiti, State against Nation: The Origins  ...
The Billionaire's Bid:

The Billionaire's Bid:

Kaira Rouda

Handsome tycoon James Putnam is acting CEO of his family’s logging company, Putnam Industries.
Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making ...

Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making ...

Erin O'Connor

Caulfield, Sueann, Sarah C. Chambers, and Lara Putnam, eds. Honor, Status, and Law inModern Latin America. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. . " Introduction: Transformations in Honor, Status, and Law over the Long Nineteenth ...
Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

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Introduction: Transformations in Honor, Status, and Law over the Long Nineteenth Century Lara Putnam, Sarah C. Chambers, & Sueann Caulfield This collection of essays examines relations between the law and concepts of honor, status, ...
A Million Miles Away

A Million Miles Away

Lara Avery

Lara Avery delivers a breathtaking story of love and loss that is guaranteed to sweep you off your feet.
Lara's Gift

Lara's Gift

Annemarie O'Brien

Going against her father's wishes and becoming increasingly sure of her special gift of understanding these incredible dogs, Lara risks everything when she reveals the truth about her visions.
Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race ...

Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race ...

Lara Putnam

In Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing, edited by Diana Paton and Maarit Forde, 198–219. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. Forde, Maarit, and Diana Paton. “Introduction.” In Obeah and Other ...
The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty

The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty

Richelle Putnam

Richelle Putnam has been an artistinresidence at schools and for the Girl Scouts of America, and she has facilitated journaling sessions for various recovery groups and in prison settings with incarcerated women. She is a graduate of three ...
Kit de supervivencia para mi futura yo

Kit de supervivencia para mi futura yo

Lara Avery

Lara Avery escribe de maravilla, su narración es excelente, elegante y goza de una profundidad que no esperaba. Nos hace pensar y replantearnos muchos aspectos de la vida.
The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America

The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America

Lara Freidenfelds

"Lara Freidenfelds traces this cultural shift, showing how Americans reframed their thinking about menstruation.
Lara's Gift

Lara's Gift

Annemarie O'Brien

In 1914 Russia, Lara is being groomed by her father to be the next kennel steward for the Count's borzoi dogs, but her visions, although suppressed by her father, seem to suggest she has a special bond with the dogs.
The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly

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By John Thomas Goodrich. Farrar & Rinehart, $2. The Kennel Murder Case. By S. S. Van Dine. Scribner. The Prison Wall. By Ethel M. Dell. Putnam, $2. Silver Magic. By Elizabeth Carfrae. Putnam, $2. Marie Antoinette. By Katharine Anthony .
Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work

Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work

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Putnam publishedhisdataset from this study in 2001 and subsequently published thefull paper in2007. ... Recognition Robert Putnam has been elected a fellow of the American Academy ofArtsand Sciences (1980), anda member of the ...
Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences

Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences

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SEMOTILUS. 296. S. COrporalis (Mitch.) Putnam. Massachusetts to Idaho and South. 297. S. pallidus (Grd.) Cope. Arkansas to Nebraska, d.g. % LEUCOSOMCS Hacckel, 1842. 298. S. argentens (Storer) Putnam. New England and New York.
We Won't Back Down: Severita Lara's Rise from Student Leader ...

We Won't Back Down: Severita Lara's Rise from Student Leader ...

José Angel Gutiérrez

He also follows her attempts as a single mother to achieve her dream of being a doctor and providing for her sons. This is the story of la cabezuda, Severita Lara, who has made an indelible imprint on American history.
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert D. Putnam

JENNIFER M. SILVA AND ROBERT D. PUTNAM Our Qualitative Research Some of us learn from numbers, but more of us learn from stories. Since one central purpose of this book is to enlarge the number of educated Americans who ...
Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

Daniel Aaron Silver

Parts of this section come from collaboration with Joseph Yi (Yi and Silver, 2015). 33. See Putnam (2000); and Putnam and Campbell (2010). 34. See Yi (2009) and Yi and Graziul (2011) on this topic, as well as Emerson (2006). 35. Religious  ...
Metodología de la historia social de España

Metodología de la historia social de España

Manuel Tuñón de Lara

Una de las características más destacables del quehacer de Tuñón de Lara podría ser su indeclinable estímulo a favor de la conceptualización teórica del trabajo histórico.
Pedagogy, Printing and Protestantism: The Discourse on Childhood

Pedagogy, Printing and Protestantism: The Discourse on Childhood

Carmen Luke

64 Putnam further notes that Petri printed seven more editions within the following three years, another rival Basel printer produced five more editions, and an Augsburg printer issued three editions. Febvre and Martin add to Putnam's account ...
Los Angeles Magazine

Los Angeles Magazine

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11640 San Vicente Blvd. (l'/2 blocks east of Barrington) www.peternornian.coni 310.820.8787 contributors LARA JO REGAN A stroll around the neighborhood provided the inspiration for Lara Jo Regan's photo essay documenting life on a ...
Westminster's World: Understanding Political Roles

Westminster's World: Understanding Political Roles

Donald Searing

... Converse and Pierce Huitt; Manley; Fenno; Cain, Ferejohn and Fiorina Matthews; Barber; Woshinsky; King; Aberbach, Putnam, and Rockman; Payne a. Joel D. Aberbach, Robert D. Putnam, and Bert A. Rockman, Bureaucrats and Politicians ...

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