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In this detailed look at family life in America, Coleman, Ganong and Warzinick discuss home and work, family ceremonies and celebrations, parenting and children, divorce and single-parent homes, gay and lesbian families, as well as cooking and meals, urban vs.

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Starting with the late Roman families the first five chapters explore the roles of family members defined by tradition and law, what constituted a legal marriage and a family, to whom the children belonged, and who was included in the extended family.

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On a Liverpool railway platform a mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption... A vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his longing for other men... This book explores the extraordinary choices British families made in the past to protect their good name.

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The Victorians were passionate about family. This book focuses particularly on the conflicting and powerful images of family life that Victorians produced in their writing - that is, on how the Victorians themselves conceived of the family. It examines the English Victorian family both as it was imagined and as it was experienced.

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The first book to explore mythical beasts in history and how these fantastical creatures are transformed in modern legends and folklore.

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Offers a full and revealing account of the perilous and adventurous course of the Northern Territory; a comprehensive account of its history which debunks the myths and makes human both the high and low points.

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Examines a political phenomenon which is the dramatic shift of black voters from the Republican to the Democratic party in the 1930s. This book shows that blacks became Democrats in response to the economic benefits of the New Deal and that they voted for Franklin Roosevelt in spite of the New Deal's lack of a substantive record on race.

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With world markets upset and economies in recession, the 1920s and '30s were not an easy time for farmers, who required great resilience to survive. This title examines the challenges that farmers faced and the ways in which they responded.

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Described as a masterpiece by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing.

If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistrys Fine Balance or Katherine Boos Behind the Beautiful Forevers, you will love this book.

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Fascism is one of the most destructive and influential political movements of the 20th century. This study tackles how fascism is defined, the basis of its appeal and why it took root so successfully in Germany and Italy, but not in France or Britain.

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Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England.

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This is a definitive overview of fashion in the 1970s, featuring platform heels, hotpants, punks, and New Romantics.

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From the etiquette of courtly dress to the evolution of the Elizabethan ruff, this title explores the sartorial world of the late-16th century, why people wore the clothes they did, and how the dizzyingly eclectic range of fashions (including ruffs, rebatos and French farthingales) transformed over time.

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Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young peoples style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young peoples generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them in the history of 19601970s Italian society.

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'Fashioning Socialism', a history of communist fashion in East Germany, uses clothing as a lens to read society. The author unveils wider tensions between the regime and the population and within the regime itself.

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'Fashioning Socialism', a history of communist fashion in East Germany, uses clothing as a lens to read society. The author unveils wider tensions between the regime and the population and within the regime itself.

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"Explores the role of the dressed and undressed body in the making of the modern Middle East, from perspectives such as nation, gender, post-colonialism and historiography"--

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Ty Matejowsky examines the rise and popularity of corporate fast food in the provincial Philippines from an anthropological perspective. Based on more than 20 years of ethnographic fieldwork, he shows how this global restaurant format has been indigenized and reimagined by native entrepreneurs and everyday diners into something distinctly Filipino.