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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the ...

Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the ...

Thavolia Glymph

Even yeomen women, Stephanie McCurry writes, learned that “the hand of power was never designed for [them].” Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Householods, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the ...
Wars Within a War: Controversy and Conflict Over the ...

Wars Within a War: Controversy and Conflict Over the ...

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Gender and the Politics of Subsistence in the Civil Vnlr South *3 STEPHANIE MCCURRY E* The Confederate war ripped like an earthquake through the foundation of southern life. Its impact registered in every domain from the high reaches of ...
Confederate Reckoning

Confederate Reckoning

Stephanie McCurry

David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering (Bloomington, 2009), 125–155; Fick, TheMaking ofHaiti, 226, 152; Diana Paton,No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican StateFormation (Durham, 2004), 80 and throughout.
Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender ...

Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender ...

Stephanie McCurry

Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in ...
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of ...

Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of ...

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Stephanie McCurry delivered a version of chapter 1 for me to the Social History Conference at Irvine University. An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared in Review as “Antebellum Households: A New Perspective on Familiar Questions.
The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal ...

The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal ...

Natalie J. Ring

The rigorous trainingI received from Steven Hahn, Rachel N. Klein, and Stephanie McCurry at the University of California, San Diego (ucsd) continues to be priceless. Steven Hahn never lost faith in the significance of this project, from the very ...
Confederate Reckoning

Confederate Reckoning

Stephanie McCurry

19, 1862, all in Berlin et al., Destruction of Slavery, 232–233,233–235,219–221. See also Matthew J. Clavin, “American Toussaints: Symbol, Subversion, and the Black Atlantic Tradition in the American Civil War,” Slavery and Abolition 28, no.
South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times

South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times

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Cara Anzilotti, Barbara Bellows, and Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease have examined the lives of slaveholding women, while Stephanie McCurry's important work has provided valuable insights regarding gender and the state's yeoman ...
We Mean to be Counted: White Women & Politics in Antebellum ...

We Mean to be Counted: White Women & Politics in Antebellum ...

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On farmers' wives and poor women, see Victoria E. Bynum, Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992); Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: ...
'In the Company' with Susie King Taylor

'In the Company' with Susie King Taylor

Stephanie McCurry

Recounts Susie King Taylor's experiences as a combat nurse and teacher for the soldiers in Company E of the 33rd United States Colored Troops, stationed on the Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands during the Civil War.
Lantern Cookery Classics: Stephanie Alexander

Lantern Cookery Classics: Stephanie Alexander

Stephanie Alexander

Highly acclaimed cook, writer and seasonal food pioneer Stephanie Alexander shares some of her all-time favourite recipes in this classic collection.
Operative Dictations in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Operative Dictations in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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231 Stephanie M. Cohen and Mimis Cohen Double-Opposing Z-Plasty Palatoplasty.................................... 235 Stephanie M. Cohen, David E. Morris, and Mimis Cohen Superiorly Based Pharyngeal Flap............................................. 239 Stephanie ...
Art of Surfing: A Training Manual for the Developing and ...

Art of Surfing: A Training Manual for the Developing and ...

Raul Guisado

... Layne Beachley Sofia Mulanovich Chelsea Georgeson Layne Beachley Stephanie Gilmore Stephanie Gilmore Stephanie Gilmore Stephanie Gilmore men Nat Young Stuart Entwistle Nat Young Nat Young Nat Young Martin McMillan Joey ...
Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

Stephanie Sammartino McPherson

Stephanie Sammartino McPherson Text copyright © 2008 by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson Illustrations copyright. d Lerner PubLications comPany • minneaPoLis a clerk for Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas. That meant. Title Page.
A Woman's Europe: True Stories

A Woman's Europe: True Stories

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"After Midnight" by Stephanie Elizondo Griest excerpted from Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest. Copyright © 2004 by Stephanie Elizondo Griest. Used by permission of Villard Books, ...
Kitchen Garden Companion Cooking: Gather, Chop, Cook, Plate, Eat

Kitchen Garden Companion Cooking: Gather, Chop, Cook, Plate, Eat

Stephanie Alexander

In this new paperback edition, Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Companion Cooking, Stephanie has added more than 20 new delicious and reliable recipes.
Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge

Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge

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"La Extranjera" by Stephanie Elizondo Griest. From Around the Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest, copyright © 2004 by Stephanie Elizondo Griest. Used by permission of Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc. "Ashes" from Come ...
Independence

Independence

Cecil Foster

When the novel opens, there is a sudden and unexplained rift between Christopher and Stephanie following the return from Canada of a benefactor named Mr. Lashley, who lavishes gifts on Stephanie.
Stephanie

Stephanie

Donna Fletcher Crow

But misguided vision and a stubborn man stand in her way. Stephanie must seek God's guidance and confront her values and priorities in order to succeed.
Stephanie

Stephanie

Jack Weyland

Reluctant to admit her addiction to alcohol and drugs, sixteen-year-old Stephanie finds it impossible to give up drinking and pills until she faces her problems in a hospital treatment program.
Stephanie Winston's Best Organizing Tips: Quick, Simple Ways ...

Stephanie Winston's Best Organizing Tips: Quick, Simple Ways ...

Stephanie Winston

Offers efficient time and space savers for all areas of life, complete with anecdotes, exercises, and examples
Turbo Twenty-Three: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Turbo Twenty-Three: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Janet Evanovich

Stephanie Plum has a lot on her plate, but for a girl who claims to have “virtually no marketable skills,” these are the kinds of sweet assignments she does best. From the Hardcover edition.
It's Not Me, It's You

It's Not Me, It's You

Stephanie Kate Strohm

Everyone is talking about it, so let's talk about it... From rising star Stephanie Kate Strohm, this is a laugh-out-loud look at one girl's epic dating history, as told by her friends, family, and foes.
The Total Package: A Novel

The Total Package: A Novel

Stephanie Evanovich

Stephanie Evanovich is a full-fledged Jersey girl from Asbury Park and the New York Times bestselling author of Big Girl Panties and The Sweet Spot.
The Lost Girl of Astor Street

The Lost Girl of Astor Street

Stephanie Morrill

Perfect for fans of Libba Bray and Anna Godbersen, Stephanie Morrill’s atmospheric jazz-age mystery will take readers from the glitzy homes of the elite to the dark underbelly of 1920s Chicago.

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