Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionWidely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berli...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keri Leigh MerrittAnalyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess worker...

Reducere. This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally publ...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

Reducere. Are you a first-time mother or are you pregnant again after a loss? Do you feel overwhelmed with your condition, the delivery or the overall mother...

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1, 000 e...

Description"Before we begin there are a few things you should know. This story is not going to be an altogether happy one. It is the story of how m...

Reducere. Highly acclaimed by leading parenting authors, academics and activists, with a foreword from Naomi Stadlen, founder of Mothers Talking and author o...

Reducere. The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comp...

Reducere. First published in 1931, the author exposes the commercial aspects of slave trading, including the breeding and rearing of slaves for sale to Weste...

A powerful medical memoir about the extraordinary fetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation of babies into the world.

A powerful medical memoir about the extraordinary fetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation of babies into the world.

Reducere. Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteent...

This book investigates why women might decide to birth outside the system and makes connections between women's right to choose where they give bir...

Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the ...

In Birthing a New Civilization Diana Cooper takes stock of where humanity stands in its evolutionary development looking at the current transition ...

White, black, and Native American women in the early South often viewed motherhood as a composite of roles, ranging from teacher and nurse to farme...

Reducere. How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers the...

Bring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading series for W...

A moving memoir of a young nurse's experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriv...

Reducere. Rich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights. Midwives in the United States live and work in a comp...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton planta...

DescriptionFrom popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illnes...

Reducere. During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there f...

Reducere. The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commen...

Reducere. A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and...

Reducere. Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study reveal...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they...

DescriptionIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined force...

In 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Daniel N. SternNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 230 x 147 x 18Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. In one of the greatest engineering feats of his time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. Two centuries lat...

During its heyday in the 19th century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the US and Brazil. This work tells the story...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alyssa SchnellBreastfeeding without Birthing is an essential guide to breastfeeding for mothers through adoption, surrogacy...