Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young...
Social reformers
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Auteur:Gossard, Julia M.Sommaire: - Auteur:Grinapol, Corinne A.Sommaire:
Although he started out as a teacher without aspirations to be an activist or politician, Harvey Milk found himself captivated by the history-making movements of the 1960s. He would eventually make history of his own by becoming the...
- Auteur:Moore, KateSommaire:
Committed to an insane asylum in 1860 to keep her in line, Elizabeth Packard refused to be silenced and challenged the medical science of the day.
- Auteur:Krull, KathleenSommaire:
Most people know about President FDR, but do you know the woman who created his groundbreaking New Deal? As a young girl, Frances Perkins was very shy and quiet. But her grandmother encouraged Frances to always challenge herself. When...
- Auteur:Krass, PeterSommaire:
From Chelsea House's Black Americans of Achievement series comes this biography of the legendary anti slavery activist.
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Auteur:Chambers, VeronicaSommaire:Before they were activists, they were just like you and me. From Frederick Douglass to Malala Yousafzai, Joan of Arc to John Lewis, these remarkable figures show us what it means to take a stand and say no to injustice, proving that any...
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Auteur:Macdonald, Ian, O'Keefe, BettySommaire:This lively biography of Bishop Edward Cridge and his wife Mary paints a vivid picture of early Victoria as it developed from an isolated Hudson's Bay Company post into the bustling capital of British Columbia. Recruited from England by...
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Auteur:Sissons, CrystalSommaire:Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the...
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Auteur:Scandiffio, LauraSommaire:Sometimes it’s okay to ignore the rules or break the law. In fact, it’s essential! This thought-provoking book features people who did just that: Sophie and Hans Scholl, siblings who distributed antigovernment pamphlets in Nazi Germany...
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Auteur:Difranco, AniSommaire:A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the...
- Auteur:Chow, OliviaSommaire:
What drives Olivia Chow? How did she emerge from a turbulent childhood to become an inspiring political force? What influences and events have shaped her life? And how is she continuing her quest after losing her partner in life and...
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Auteur:Eliot, GeorgeSommaire:Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village. Dorothea, seeking a life of noble service, falls for the dry intellectual Edward Casaubon, much to her light-hearted sister’s dismay. Eight hundred pages of...
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Auteur:Eliot, GeorgeSommaire:Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society.
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Auteur:Gorham, DeborahSommaire:Marion Dewar could never ignore a person who was begging in the street. Along with money, she would offer words of encouragement and friendship. Perhaps it was her training as a nurse, her devout Catholic upbringing, or maybe it was...
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Auteur:Stevenson, BryanSommaire:The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
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Auteur:Kohli, Marjorie, Bagnell, Kenneth, Pettit, Mary, Corbett, Gail H.Sommaire:In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent...
- Auteur:Rich, KaeLynSommaire:
Take on the world and make some serious change with this handbook to everything activism, social justice, and resistance. This book is an in-depth guide to everything from picking a cause, planning a protest, and raising money to...
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Auteur:Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, Obstfeld, RaymondSommaire:Like many kids, Kareem, known then as Lew Alcindor, struggled to fit in, please a strict father, and deal with severe shyness. Unlike most, he had to grapple with a growth spurt that shot him up taller than everyone else. Also, the...
