Search Results - Children

From "backwardness" to "at-risk" childhood learning difficulties and the contradictions of school reform / by Franklin, Barry M.

Subjects: “…Learning disabled children Education United States History.…”
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The guardianship of best interests institutional care for the children of the poor in Halifax, 1850-1960 / by Lafferty, Renée N.

Subjects: “…Poor children Institutional care Nova Scotia Halifax History 19th century Case studies.…”
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A Decent Place To Live : From Columbia Point to Harbor Point-A Community History / by Roessner, Jane

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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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Woman in the wilderness letters of Harriet Wood Wheeler, missionary wife, 1832-1892 / by Bunge, Nancy L.

Table of Contents: “…Preparation for the journey -- The reality of mission life -- Building a home alone in the forest -- Standing with the Ojibwe against removal and smallpox -- Struggling against sickness -- Harriet's children -- Life without a mission.…”
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Postcolonial migrants and identity politics Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in comparison /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : postcolonial migrations and identity politics : towards a comparative perspective / Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen and Gert Oostindie -- Postcolonial immigrants in France and their descendants : the meanings of France's "postcolonial moment / James Cohen -- Post colonial migrants in Britain : from unwelcome guests to partial and segmented assimilation / Shinder Thandi -- Postcolonial migrants in the Netherlands : identity politics versus the fragmentation of community / Gert Oostindie -- Post-colonial Portugal : between Scylla and Charybdis / Margarida Marques -- Return of the natives? : children of empire in postimperial Japan / Nicole Leah Cohen -- Postcolonial immigration and identity formation in Europe since 1945 : the Russian variant / Allison Blakely -- The Puerto Rican diaspora to the United States : a postcolonial migration / Jorge Duany.…”
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