Author: Louis SpohrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
To Minona
Author: Louis SpohrThe Player
Author: The Standard Watch
Author: Peter Joseph von LindpaintnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Romanitshels', Didakais', and Folk-lore Gazette
Author: One Woman's Political Journey
Author: Lynn MusslewhitePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135632
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Born in Nebraska in 1875, Kate Barnard spent most of her childhood in Kansas, where family dislocation and financial failure darkened her early life. After Barnard and her father moved to Oklahoma Territory in the 1890s, Kate had unsatisfying stints as a schoolteacher and a stenographer before she discovered her life work in politics and social reform. One Woman’s Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875—1930 details the life’s work—including the political successes and failures—of a complex and courageous woman who appreciated that she was on the cutting edge of new and novel opportunities for women. Crusading for the disadvantaged, Barnard became a spokeswoman for child labor laws, a compulsory school attendance law, a juvenile justice system, and a modern penal structure. In 1907, at age thirty-two, she became the first woman in the nation elected to a state post—Commissioner of Charities and Corrections, a post created specifically for her by Oklahoma’s constitutional convention. Her dramatic rhetoric and favorable publicity attracted national attention and the admiration of Oklahomans. Convinced that women could effect positive change, she encouraged them to move into the public arena and embrace social justice reform. She also formed a coalition of farmers and laborers that led to the creation of Oklahoma’s Democratic Party. In her first term, Barnard persuaded Oklahoma’s all-male legislature to pass reforms announcing state responsibility for the welfare of children and forced changes in the state’s humanitarian institutions. In her second term, she sought protection for property rights of American Indian children. But Barnard’s career was not without obstacles. Her lack of control over budgets and personnel, along with her frequent clashing with male politicians limited her effectiveness and fueled her growing discouragement with politics. Named by Oklahoma Today as one of the fifty most influential Oklahomans in the past one hundred years, Kate Barnard is finally the deserved focus of a full-length scholarly biography.
The Riddle of the Immortal Beloved
Author: Oscar George SonneckPublisher: New York : G. Schirmer
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A Book of Cook Islands Maori Names, Ingoa
Author: Jon JonassenPublisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820203341
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This collection serves as a basis for identifying and understanding names. The collection highlights the rich naming heritage of the Maori people of Rarotonga and neighbouring islands where names play a major role.
The Alumni Quarterly and Fortnightly Notes of the University of Illinois
Author: The Musical Treasure, a collection of vocal and instrumental music, etc
Author: The Trickster in West Africa
Author: Robert D. PeltonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341481
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way the trickster links animality and ritual transformation; culture, sex, and laughter; cosmic process and personal history; divination and social change. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way th