Search Results - Orphans

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont unlikely champion of women's rights / by Hoffert, Sylvia D.

Table of Contents: “…An Impossible Child -- Every Inch a General -- A Sex Battle -- Immortalizing the Lady in Affecting Prose -- Belmont's Orphan Child -- The Last Word -- Postscript: My Turn -- Appendix: Belmont's Financial Contributions to Woman's Rights.…”
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Kidnapped souls national indifference and the battle for children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948 / by Zahra, Tara

Table of Contents: “…"Czech schools for Czech children!" -- Teachers, orphans, and social workers -- Warfare, welfare, and the end of empire -- Reclaiming children for the nation -- Freudian nationalists and Heimat activists -- Borderland children and Volkstumsarbeit under Nazi rule -- Stay-at-home nationalism -- Reich-loyal Czech nationalism.…”
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Kidnapped souls national indifference and the battle for children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948 / by Zahra, Tara

Table of Contents: “…"Czech schools for Czech children!" -- Teachers, orphans, and social workers -- Warfare, welfare, and the end of empire -- Reclaiming children for the nation -- Freudian nationalists and Heimat activists -- Borderland children and Volkstumsarbeit under Nazi rule -- Stay-at-home nationalism -- Reich-loyal Czech nationalism.…”
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A Russian psyche the poetic mind of Marina Tsvetaeva / by Dinega, Alyssa W.

Table of Contents: “…Losing Rilke: The Dark Lure of Mra -- 4. Ruing Young Orphans: The End of the Line -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index.…”
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A Russian psyche the poetic mind of Marina Tsvetaeva / by Dinega, Alyssa W.

Table of Contents: “…Losing Rilke: The Dark Lure of Mra -- 4. Ruing Young Orphans: The End of the Line -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Children and youth during the Civil War era

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- Orphans and Indians : Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools and the landscape of post war childhood / Judith Geisberg -- Preparing the next generation for massive resistance : the children of the Confederacy, 1955-1965 / J. …”
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Children and youth during the Civil War era

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- Orphans and Indians : Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools and the landscape of post war childhood / Judith Geisberg -- Preparing the next generation for massive resistance : the children of the Confederacy, 1955-1965 / J. …”
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Perspectives on Barry Hannah

Table of Contents: “…Graybill -- Southern and western Native Americans in Barry Hannah's fiction / Melanie R. Benson -- Orphans all : reality homesickness in Yonder stands your orphan / Scott Romine -- Interview with Barry Hannah / Daniel E. …”
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Perspectives on Barry Hannah

Table of Contents: “…Graybill -- Southern and western Native Americans in Barry Hannah's fiction / Melanie R. Benson -- Orphans all : reality homesickness in Yonder stands your orphan / Scott Romine -- Interview with Barry Hannah / Daniel E. …”
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"We are three sisters" self and family in the writing of the Brontës / by Lamonica, Drew, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Family as context and content -- The Victorian context : self, family, and society -- The family context : writing as sibling relationship -- Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child" -- Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw -- Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family -- The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values -- Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family -- Life after Villette.…”
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Case closed Holocaust survivors in postwar America / by Cohen, Beth B., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…: the newcomers arrive -- Case closed : from agency support to self-sufficiency -- "Bearded refugees" : the reception of religious newcomers -- "Unaccompanied minors" : the story of the displaced orphans -- The bumpy road : public perception and the reality of survival -- The helping process : mental health professionals' postwar response to survivors -- The myth of silence : a different story.…”
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Confederate phoenix rebel children and their families in South Carolina / by Drago, Edmund L.

Table of Contents: “…Children as a factor in war strategy -- Boy soldiers and their families -- Childrearing -- "Spilt milk" : three family cameos -- Education and nation building -- "Something for the girls" : marriage customs and girlhood -- "Going up the spout" : converging defeat on the battlefield and home front -- Baptism by fire -- Widows and orphans -- Reconstruction and redemption : the Civil War, part II -- The last phoenix : conflicting legacies, 1890-2007.…”
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Confederate phoenix rebel children and their families in South Carolina / by Drago, Edmund L.

Table of Contents: “…Children as a factor in war strategy -- Boy soldiers and their families -- Childrearing -- "Spilt milk" : three family cameos -- Education and nation building -- "Something for the girls" : marriage customs and girlhood -- "Going up the spout" : converging defeat on the battlefield and home front -- Baptism by fire -- Widows and orphans -- Reconstruction and redemption : the Civil War, part II -- The last phoenix : conflicting legacies, 1890-2007.…”
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"We are three sisters" self and family in the writing of the Brontës / by Lamonica, Drew, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Family as context and content -- The Victorian context : self, family, and society -- The family context : writing as sibling relationship -- Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child" -- Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw -- Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family -- The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values -- Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family -- Life after Villette.…”
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Case closed Holocaust survivors in postwar America / by Cohen, Beth B., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…: the newcomers arrive -- Case closed : from agency support to self-sufficiency -- "Bearded refugees" : the reception of religious newcomers -- "Unaccompanied minors" : the story of the displaced orphans -- The bumpy road : public perception and the reality of survival -- The helping process : mental health professionals' postwar response to survivors -- The myth of silence : a different story.…”
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Germans into Jews remaking the Jewish social body in the Weimar Republic / by Gillerman, Sharon, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…"As the family goes, so goes the nation" -- Constructing a Jewish body politic : declining fertility and the development of a Jewish population policy -- "A little state within a larger one" : the expansion of Jewish social work during the Weimar Republic -- Rescuing "endangered youths" : youth welfare and the project of bourgeois social reform -- "Trauma and transference" : war orphans shape a new Jewish nation.…”
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Germans into Jews remaking the Jewish social body in the Weimar Republic / by Gillerman, Sharon, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…"As the family goes, so goes the nation" -- Constructing a Jewish body politic : declining fertility and the development of a Jewish population policy -- "A little state within a larger one" : the expansion of Jewish social work during the Weimar Republic -- Rescuing "endangered youths" : youth welfare and the project of bourgeois social reform -- "Trauma and transference" : war orphans shape a new Jewish nation.…”
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Dreams of nationhood American Jewish communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan project, 1924-1951 / by Srebrnik, Henry Felix

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: American Jews, communism, the ICOR and Birobidzhan -- The formation of Ambijan -- The people's delegation and the popular front, 1935-1939 -- Wartime aid to the Soviet Union: the ICOR -- Wartime aid to the Soviet Union: Ambijan -- The postwar orphans' campaign and the Ambijan-ICOR merger -- The glory years, 1946-1948 -- Ambijan and the creation of israel -- The gathering storm: McCarthyism, cold war, and decline -- Islands of resistance, 1949-1950 -- Conclusion: from hope to hoax.…”
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Dreams of nationhood American Jewish communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan project, 1924-1951 / by Srebrnik, Henry Felix

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: American Jews, communism, the ICOR and Birobidzhan -- The formation of Ambijan -- The people's delegation and the popular front, 1935-1939 -- Wartime aid to the Soviet Union: the ICOR -- Wartime aid to the Soviet Union: Ambijan -- The postwar orphans' campaign and the Ambijan-ICOR merger -- The glory years, 1946-1948 -- Ambijan and the creation of israel -- The gathering storm: McCarthyism, cold war, and decline -- Islands of resistance, 1949-1950 -- Conclusion: from hope to hoax.…”
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Scarecrows of chivalry English masculinities after empire / by Gopinath, Praseeda, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: English masculinities in transition -- Manly independent men: (de)constructing the English gentleman -- Out of place: Evelyn Waugh and the retreating gentleman -- An orphaned manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex man -- "One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys": posting the gentleman in Philip Larkin's poetry -- "Moulded and shaped": John Wain, Ian Fleming, and threshold masculinities -- Writing women, reading men: A. …”
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