Katherine Anderson. June 17, 1930. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Claims
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 1930
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Claims
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 1930
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1930
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Page : 1552 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Government publications
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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Author : Margaret Birney Pittis
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Page : 696 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : William J. Mann
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429921978
The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine Hepburn: a Connecticut Yankee, outspoken and elegant, she wore pants whatever the occasion and bristled at Hollywood glitter. So captivating was her image that she never seemed less than authentic. But how well did we know her, really? Was there a woman behind the image who was more human, more driven, and ultimately more triumphant because of her vulnerability? William J. Mann—a cultural historian and journalist, a sympathetic admirer but no mere fan—has fashioned an intimate, often revisionist, and truly unique close-up that challenges much of what we think we know about the Great Kate. Previous biographies—mostly products of friends and fans—have recycled the stories she hid behind, taking Hollywood myths at face value. Mann goes deeper, delivering new details from friends and family who have not been previously interviewed and drawing on materials only available since Hepburn's death. With affection, intelligence, and a voluminous knowledge of Hollywood history, Mann shows us how a woman originally considered too special and controversial for fame learned the fine arts of movie stardom and transformed herself into an icon as durable and all-American as the Statue of Liberty.
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Page : 1580 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1526119609
This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.
Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806147342
In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously trading goods and news with each other, and Indians providing various forms of assistance to overlanders. Tate admits that both sides normally followed their own best interests and ethical standards, which sometimes created distrust. But many acts of kindness by emigrants and by Indians can be attributed to simple human compassion. Not until the mid-1850s did Plains tribes begin to see their independence and cultural traditions threatened by the flood of white travelers. As buffalo herds dwindled and more Indians died from diseases brought by emigrants, violent clashes between wagon trains and Indians became more frequent, and the first Anglo-Indian wars erupted on the plains. Yet, even in the 1860s, Tate finds, friendly encounters were still the rule. Despite thousands of mutually beneficial exchanges between whites and Indians between 1840 and 1870, the image of Plains Indians as the overland pioneers’ worst enemies prevailed in American popular culture. In explaining the persistence of that stereotype, Tate seeks to dispel one of the West’s oldest cultural misunderstandings.