David l. lightner (18 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. pp. 288.

Zustand: New. This collection of annotated newspaper articles and memorials by Dorothea Dix provides a forum for the mid-19th-century humanitarian and reformer to speak for herself. An introduction to each document places it in social and historical context, and the editor considers Dix's ongoing impact. Num Pages: 184 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; HBTB; JFFA; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236. . 1999. Annotated. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: New. In English.

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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winnie Lightner (1899-1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. Blessed with a superb singing voice and a gift for making wisecracks and rubber faces, she rose to stardom in vaudeville and on Broadway. Then, at the dawn of the sound era, she became the first person in motion picture history to have her spoken words, the lyrics to a song, censored.In Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies, David L. Lightner shows how Winnie Lightner's hilarious performance in the 1929 musical comedy Gold Diggers of Broadway made her an overnight sensation. She went on to star in seven other Warner Bros. features. In the best of them, she was the comic epitome of a strident feminist, dominating men and gleefully spurning conventional gender norms and moral values. So tough was she, the studio billed her as ''the tomboy of the talkies.''When the Great Depression rendered moviegoers hostile toward feminism, Warner Bros. tried to craft a new image of her as glamorous and sexy. Executives assigned her contradictory roles in which she was empowered in the workplace but submissive to her male partner at home. The new persona flopped at the box office, and Lightner's stardom ended. In four final movies, she played supporting roles as the loudmouthed roommate and best friend of actresses Loretta Young, Joan Crawford, and Mona Barrie.Following her retirement in 1934, Lightner faded into obscurity. Many of her films were damaged or even lost entirely. At long last, this biography gives Winnie Lightner the recognition she deserves as a notable figure in film history, in women's history, and in the history of show business.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This illustrated collection of annotated newspaper articles and memorials by Dorothea Dix provides a forum for the great mid-nineteenth-century humanitarian and reformer to speak for herself.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorDavid L. Lightner teaches American history in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852-1900: The Evolution of an Industrial E.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorDavid L. Lightner is Professor of history, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta.KlappentextrnrnDespite the United States ban on slave importation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite the United States' ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nineteenth century's great cotton boom required vast human labor to bring new lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were torn from their families and sold across state lines in distant markets. Shocked by the cruelty and extent of this practice, abolitionists called upon the federal government to exercise its constitutional authority over interstate commerce and outlaw the interstate selling of slaves. This groundbreaking book is the first to tell the complex story of the decades-long debate and legal battle over federal regulation of the slave trade. David Lightner explores a wide range of constitutional, social, and political issues that absorbed antebellum America. He revises accepted interpretations of various historical figures, including James Madison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln, and he argues convincingly that southern anxiety over the threat to the interstate slave trade was a key precipitant to the secession of the South and the Civil War.…