Families

Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations.

Kids can be afraid of lots of different things - the dark, spiders, dogs, clowns, monsters. This book outlines the steps kids can use to deal with their everyday fears, and get back to the business of being a kid.

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This is a revealing volume that portrays the lives of African Americans in all its variety across the entire 19th century - combining coverage of the pre- and post-Civil War eras. From the slave trade and the Civil War to '40 acres and a mule' and Jim Crow laws, African Americans in the 1800s struggled to be afforded legally protected citizenship and social acceptance. This work explores African American life across the breadth of the 19th century and the expanse of the nation, giving voice to men, women, and children too often unheard.

"The Rat That Got Away" is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time - the 1950s - when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families.

"Intimate Partner Violence" is a resource for a wide range of professionals who work with children and families. The content includes contemporary concepts and research on IPV, a pervasive problem in our society that affects adults and children and crosses all socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic boundaries. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive reference, but rather an accessible guide that can be quickly read and referenced. 23 contributors.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, in response to the rising epidemic of paralytic poliomyelitis (polio), Texas researchers led a wave of discoveries in virology, rehabilitative therapies, and the modern intensive care unit that transformed the field nationally. The disease threatened the lives of children and adults in the United States, especially in the South, arousing the same kind of fear more recently associated with AIDS and other dread diseases.

In the east Texas town of Cold Springs in 1944, the community waits for the war to end. In this place where certain boundaries are not crossed and in a time when people reveal little about themselves, their problems, and their passions, Jane Roberts Wood exposes the heart of each of four families during the last year of World War II. Bound together by neighborhood and Southern customs, yet separated by class, money, and family, they are an unforgettable lot, vibrantly brought to life in this 'delightfully perceptive and unabashedly romantic' novel ("Sanford Herald").

If there was ever a 'ring-tailed roarer' of the backwoods of New Mexico, he was Quentin Hulse (1926-2002). Hulse lived and worked most of his life at the bottom of Canyon Creek in the Gila River country of southwestern New Mexico, but his reputation spread far and wide. His western image appeared on a tourist postcard and souvenir license plate in the 1950s. Documentary footage of a lion hunt led by Hulse and his hounds appeared on the Men's Channel in 2005, three years after his passing.

This title explores the interpretation of servants and other hired help in historic house museums. Museum historian Jennifer Pustz explores the interpretation of servants and other hired household help in historic house museums, one of the most prevalent types of history museums in the country. Although these museums have long depicted the owners of the house and their families, representing the servants has introduced a unique set of challenges.

Judith M. Brown, one of the leading historians of South Asia, provides an original and thought-provoking strategy for conducting and presenting historical research in her latest book, "Windows into the Past". Brown looks at how varieties of 'life history' that focus on the lives of institutions and families, as well as individuals, offer a broad and rich means of studying history. Her distinctively creative approach differs from traditional historical biography in that it explores a variety of 'life histories' and shows us how they become invaluable windows into the past.

This book uncovers firsthand accounts of women's experiences in 18th-century Dutch Asia. "Wives, Slaves, and Concubines" argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divisions in Batavia-Jakarta, modern-day Indonesia, to deal with difficult realities in Southeast Asia. Jones uses compelling stories from ordinary Asian women to explore the profound structural changes occurring at the end of the early colonial period - changes that helped birth the modern world order.