The Unfit Heiress 9781538753347, 9781538753354

Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist 9780231511377

Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzlin

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Unfit: Jewish Degeneration and Modernism 9781350098947, 9781350098978, 9781350098954

An obsession with “degeneration” was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the start of the 20th century. Less

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Divine Heiress: The Virgin Mary and the Creation of Christian Constantinople 0415096774, 0203036174, 0203204050

Divine Heiress explores the vital role of the Virgin Mary in the cultural and religious life of Constantinople in late a

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Nell: The Australian Heiress who Saved her Husband from Stalin & the Nazis 9780980621693, 9780980621679

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Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics 9780814732434

Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep i

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Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune 9780826272317, 9780826219053, 0826272312

Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fo

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Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness 9781478022459

Marlon B. Ross explores the figure of the sissy as central to how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated b

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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale 9781844885558, 9781844885572, 1844885550

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace as a debut

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Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia 9780812201451

"Deeply researched and beautifully crafted, this book is an original contribution to the history of American reform

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Unfit for ­Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World 9781472971029, 9781472970992, 9781472971036

Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern

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