Resultados da busca - "Home and Away"

Kodak elegy a Cold War childhood / por Decker, William Merrill

Sumário: “…Leaving Walden Road -- Whitewood Lane -- Brothers -- Camp -- School -- City -- Urban paths -- Crossings -- Girl at the lake -- False positions -- Home and away and home again -- Home and away.…”
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Be it ever so humble poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home / por MacKenzie, Scott R., 1969-

Sumário: “…Introduction: There's no case like home -- "Stock the parish with beauties": Henry Fielding's parochial vision -- An Englishwoman's workhouse is her castle: poverty management and the Radcliffean gothic -- Home and away: hegemony and naturalization -- There's no home-like place: out of doors in Scotland -- Conclusion: this home is not a house.…”
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Fostering now messages from research / por Sinclair, Ian, 1938-

Sumário: “…Introducing the report -- Home or away? Some basic issues -- Developing roles for foster care? …”
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A room of his own a literary-cultural study of Victorian clubland / por Black, Barbara J., 1962-

Sumário: “…Introduction: The man in the club window -- A night at the club -- Conduct befitting a gentleman: mid-Victorian clubdom and the novel -- Clubland's special correspondents -- Membership has its privileges: the imperial clubman at home and away -- The pleasure of your company in late-Victorian Pall Mall -- A world of men: an elegy for clubbability -- Epilogue: A room of her own.…”
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A history of modern Africa : 1800 to the present / por Reid, Richard J (Richard James)

Sumário: “…Introduction: understanding the contours of Africa's past -- Western transitions: slave trade and "legitimate" commerce in Atlantic Africa -- Eastern intrusions: slaves and ivory in eastern Africa -- Southern frontiers: colony and revolution in southern Africa -- Revival and reaction: North African Islam -- Jihad: revolutions in western Africa -- The eastern crescent: the Islamic frontier in eastern Africa -- The compass and the cross -- "Whatever happens": towards the scramble -- Africans adapting: conquest and partition -- "Pax colonia": empires of soil and service -- Hard times: protest, identity, and depression -- Battles home and away: Africa in global war (again) -- The beached whale: colonial strategies in the postwar world -- Conceiving and producing nations -- Compromising conflict: routes to independence -- Unsafe foundations: challenges of independence -- Violence and the militarization of political culture -- Rectification, redemption, and reality: issues and trends in contemporary Africa.…”

Children's nature the rise of the American summer camp / por Paris, Leslie

Sumário: “…A warm history of modern childhood -- At work and at play : the making of camp "family" -- Small islands : the first summer camps -- "A home though away from home" : how parents, camp owners, and children forged camp networks -- Rituals of the season : the organization of camp community -- Between generations : tensions in the camp "family" -- Modernity and tradition in children's socialization -- Is it progress? …”
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