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Certain Other Countries : Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales / by Conley, Carolyn, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Homicides: procedures, perceptions, and statistics -- National identity: foreigners and strangers -- Class, gender, and the fair fight -- Family and courtship -- Husbands and wives -- Children.…”
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Moral Enterprise : Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 / by Beier, Lucinda McCray

Table of Contents: “…"Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.…”
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