Report of the First-fifth Annual Conference. 1899-1903
Title | Report of the First-fifth Annual Conference. 1899-1903 PDF eBook |
Author | Association of Catholic colleges of the United States |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Education |
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Labor Pains
Title | Labor Pains PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hogan |
Publisher | Federation Press |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781862876279 |
In the 1890s the trade union movement in New South Wales began a serious attempt to create something quite new - what we now recognise as a modern political party. Labor Pains is the documentary story of the early years of the Australian Labor Party, a developing and detailed narrative told from contemporary press reports. The debate on the party's shape and future direction is uninhibited as leaders argue diverse points of view. Internal democracy ensures a remarkably consensual resolution of issues. The great political issues resonate a century later: racial stereotyping and immigration policy; free trade and protection; Australia's role in imperial wars. Many of the debating topics have a similar, familiar, modern ring: branch stacking; rivalry between branch members and trade union delegates; tension between members of parliament and the extra-parliamentary party; clashes between idealism and political expediency. Labor Pains climaxes in 1905 when the Australian Labor Party becomes the main opposition party in the New South Wales Parliament. See Labor Pains Series link, to the right, for details of other Volumes. A NSW Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government publication.
Pandita Ramabai
Title | Pandita Ramabai PDF eBook |
Author | Meera Kosambi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2016-01-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317334019 |
This book looks at the life of Pandita Ramabai, one of the major social reformers of 19th-century India. Her unique life trajectory spanned across a pan-Indian, orthodox Hindu mould to being part of Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj, and further to Christianity. At the age of 30 she had travelled widely within India and across the world, from USA and UK in the West to Japan in the Far East. She reported these fascinating journeys to international friends and fellow Maharashtrians in both English and Marathi. Fighting conservatism and marginalization she set up several projects to empower women, notably, the Sharada Sadan in Mumbai and the Mukti Mission in Kedgaon near Pune in Maharashtra. This work locates Pandita Ramabai within her liminal social milieu and discursive networks during various phases of her life, and traces her diverse ideological routes along with her critical writings, some of which have been retrieved and/or presented in English translation here for the first time, including The High-Caste Hindu Woman and the newly discovered Voyage to England. Offering a comprehensive insight into aspects of 19th-century Indian society — religion and reform, women’s rights and feminism, social movements, poverty, and colonialism — this book will greatly interest researchers and students of South Asian history, sociology, and gender studies.
The Official Good Roads Year Book of the United States
Title | The Official Good Roads Year Book of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Roads |
ISBN |
Good Roads Year Book of the U.S.
Title | Good Roads Year Book of the U.S. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1912 |
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Official Good Roads Year Book of the United States
Title | Official Good Roads Year Book of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Roads |
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From Tenements to the Taylor Homes
Title | From Tenements to the Taylor Homes PDF eBook |
Author | John F. Bauman |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2010-12-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780271042039 |
Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned suburbs for workers, the rise of government-aided and built housing during the Great Depression, the impact of post–World War II renewal policies, and the retreat from public housing in the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan years.